Chris_Malcolm
Informatics Forum
Situated at a corner of George Square in Edinburgh, this new building, formally opened by Alec Salmond on 2008/09/03, houses the Informatics School of Edinburgh University. The building is constructed around a large interior atrium which spans the entire height. A view from the interior of the atrium of this same corner can be seen here.
[Technical Photographic Note: One of those large buildings with rather constricted hemmed in views. And in this position as you walk backwards you also walk downhill. Classic problem shot. The well heeled professional will use a tilt shift lens or even a tilt shift camera for this kind of work, and possibly even a MEWP. Each even more unpleasantly expensive than the last.
But today thanks to computational magic there are other less expensive ways of doing the job, such as pointing the camera up, software perspective correction to straighten out the verticals, and cropping. Computational magic in lens design has also recently given us some remarkably good modern zooms.
This is PTLens operating on an image taken with a Sigma 10-20mm at 10mm. Not quite right yet, but a promising start :-)
Based on the amount of cropping and perspective correction I estimate this could have been taken with an 18mm tilt shift lens, or in 35mm film terms 28mm.]
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Informatics Forum
Situated at a corner of George Square in Edinburgh, this new building, formally opened by Alec Salmond on 2008/09/03, houses the Informatics School of Edinburgh University. The building is constructed around a large interior atrium which spans the entire height. A view from the interior of the atrium of this same corner can be seen here.
[Technical Photographic Note: One of those large buildings with rather constricted hemmed in views. And in this position as you walk backwards you also walk downhill. Classic problem shot. The well heeled professional will use a tilt shift lens or even a tilt shift camera for this kind of work, and possibly even a MEWP. Each even more unpleasantly expensive than the last.
But today thanks to computational magic there are other less expensive ways of doing the job, such as pointing the camera up, software perspective correction to straighten out the verticals, and cropping. Computational magic in lens design has also recently given us some remarkably good modern zooms.
This is PTLens operating on an image taken with a Sigma 10-20mm at 10mm. Not quite right yet, but a promising start :-)
Based on the amount of cropping and perspective correction I estimate this could have been taken with an 18mm tilt shift lens, or in 35mm film terms 28mm.]
Original DSC00271_pt