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this was shot at 15mm. usually the perspective distortion is pretty bad at that focal length. i'm not sure if it's better to correct or simply shoot level and then crop.
Photos from 'Perspectives' for 'Native Gardens,' Karen Zacarías' celebrated comedy about a young Latino couple that moves into a fixer-upper next to an older couple with a beautifully kept garden. All is going really well until the aristocratic young Chileans discover their property line actually extends about 2 feet over their neighbors' flowerbed. Performances run through May 6, 2018, in the Space Theatre. For more information, call 303-893-4100 or go to denvercenter.org. 'Perspectives' is a series of free public panel discussions held just before the first preview performance of each DCPA Theatre Company offering. Next up: 'The Who's Tommy': 6 p.m. Friday, April 20, 2018, in the Jones Theatre. Photos by John Moore for the DCPA NewsCenter.
It's a well known fact that using a longer focal length lens, and then stepping backwards so you can still fit your subject in frame, will "compress" the perspective in your image (i.e. make background objects appear a lot closer to your foreground).
What I haven't been able to find out until today was the effect of using different focal lengths, but keeping the same shooting position and cropping the image down to the same field of view. Seems that this has no (or very little) effect on perspective.
Any slight differences in the image above are probably due to the effect of lens distortion (barrelling, pin cushioning), or me forgetting to focus on the same point for each frame.
Taken on a Canon EOS 7d (1.6x FOVCF), using a 28mm f/2.8, 50mm f/1.8 and the awesome 70-200mm f/4.0 USM. All shots taken at f/4.0
This is the front of the levee at Barker Reservoir just to the side of the spillway. It’s almost 40 ft high. The backside is higher as the reservoir is dug down to hold more water. The levee stretches roughly 72,000 feet long to make the downstream sides of the reservoir.
Addicks Reservoir, on the other side of the interstate, rises 50 ft on the outside, deeper inside, and stretches nearly 61,000 ft.
Together they are about 26,000 acres of land, and are designed to hold about 510,000,000 cubic meters of water. Yes, you read that right.
During Hurricane Harvey, both reservoirs filled to dangerously near the top levels. If water had started to spill over the top of these earthen dams, they could erode and the whole levee would collapse basically killing everyone.
The point of this is just to help people who weren’t here to see just exactly how much water was sitting in these reservoirs during the storm, and once they started releasing water to prevent catastrophic failure, why the flooding was so incredible.
It should be noted both of these are dry reservoirs, meaning they only fill with water when it rains. Otherwise they are regular nature preserves with parks and bike paths and baseball fields and BBQ pavilions.
That’s how much rain fell. And that’s how much water came out and met the regular runoff and put 41” of water in our house.
Perspectives
by Trey Watkins.
Blocks sized from about 6 inches high (the "A" in Giant) to about 10 feet high (the "G" in Giant) - There were actually 4 partial messages spelled out in blocks, which were viewed from chairs in separate viewing positions. The complete message read "One Small Step for Burning Man, One Giant Leap for Mankind," however, " "Burning Man" was not spelled out. Instead, the viewer looked through an outline of a block and saw "The Man" on his tower.
Yesterday, I had chest reconstruction surgery. Today, in an effort to get some fresh air, we went to the mall (weird, I know.) As I was unable to walk for long distances at this point, I experienced the mall from the perspective from a wheelchair for the first time in my life.