Richmond Clocktower

[Bitter Jeweler]

As for interest, that is an opinion. I just like the architecture of this building, what else do you want it to do, fight Barney?

It's an opinion many will have.
It is a cool building.
There is just nothing special about the image.
Your perspective is that of any passerby. It has no depth. It doesn't have interesting lighting. It doesn't have interesting sky. It doesn't have an interesting perspective.



Those are the things you should start thinking about when you shoot a subject, rather than "cool building" *snap*.

Go search Flickr for architecture, and look at the variety of "cool" images, as well as "boring" images.

 

[DGMPhotography]

As for interest, that is an opinion. I just like the architecture of this building, what else do you want it to do, fight Barney?

It's an opinion many will have.
It is a cool building.
There is just nothing special about the image.
Your perspective is that of any passerby. It has no depth. It doesn't have interesting lighting. It doesn't have interesting sky. It doesn't have an interesting perspective.



Those are the things you should start thinking about when you shoot a subject, rather than "cool building" *snap*.

Go search Flickr for architecture, and look at the variety of "cool" images, as well as "boring" images.

Now I gotcha. The subject may be interesting, but the "shot" is not. What kind of perspective should I have gotten, with such a limited lens?

And thanks, I'm gonna check out Flickr.

 

[Rick58]

This type of distortion has more to do with distance then the physical properties of the lens.. Think of a long straight road. As the road gets farther and farther away, the sides of the road appear closer and closer until they appear to become a single point. Your building is the same as the road. As the building gets higher and farther away from the camera, the sides of the building appears closer together. If your building was tall enough, the sides would merge into a single point.

 

[DGMPhotography]

So then how would I get around that?

 

[Pink_Estrella]

love this photo seen the clocktower meny times being that i love here as well hard photo to get unless u standing right under it kudos ~

 

[amolitor]

You get further away from the building, or you get a tilt-shift lens, or a view camera, or you attempt to correct it to a degree in post, or some combination of them.

Or learn to love the distortion -- it's definitely a look, and some very effective photographs have been made with radical distortion. This isn't one of them, but they exist and can be done. If you search for "keystoning architecture" on flickr, for instance, you'll find a bunch of pictures. Some of them might be pretty good!

 

[DGMPhotography]

love this photo seen the clocktower meny times being that i love here as well hard photo to get unless u standing right under it kudos ~

Oh hey, fellow Richmonder! Thanks! Yeah, I had to clone away the bridge to the left xD

 

[Rick58]

So then how would I get around that?

The corrections I made was done through software. Even the low end software I use has perspective controls.

 

[DGMPhotography]

You get further away from the building, or you get a tilt-shift lens, or a view camera, or you attempt to correct it to a degree in post, or some combination of them.

Or learn to love the distortion -- it's definitely a look, and some very effective photographs have been made with radical distortion. This isn't one of them, but they exist and can be done. If you search for "keystoning architecture" on flickr, for instance, you'll find a bunch of pictures. Some of them might be pretty good!

Thanks!! Yeah, I couldn't get farther away cause there is TONS of stuff in the way, and just way too much to clone away, so I guess a tilt-shift lens would be my only option

But I'll check out keystoning architecture!

 

[Pink_Estrella]

i more or less would stop on the freeway and get out and take the photo but i dont think i have ever seen it up that close with the full clock-tower!

 

[DGMPhotography]

i more or less would stop on the freeway and get out and take the photo but i dont think i have ever seen it up that close with the full clock-tower!

Yeah, this is by the Megabus stop right beneath it xD

 

[Pink_Estrella]

omg never knew there was anything like that haha never knew how to get down there to take a pic