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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance-Times, 1983-04-27, Page 52Page 12—Crossroads—April 27, 1983 ARCHITECTURAL 'PORTRAIT°—This Is an architectural shot taken with a 35 mm camera. The branches in the upper left and the palm tree on the right provide some relief to the sky and to the repetitive design of the building. (Photo by Holt Confer) Through the Lens i Photographing buildings By HOLT CONFER When the talk turns to photographing buildings, the discussion is really about architectural pho- tography. And that's al- most like popping the lid off the can so all the worms can crawl out. You can expect to hear from the photographic pur- ists that it's virtually im- possible to take spectacu- RESULTS you'll applaud with WANT ADS lar shots of buildings with anything less than a view camera. 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However, today you can find bellows attachments (for less than $200) that fit most all of the popular camera mounts — and these bellows provide all the swings and tilts of the most complex view camer- as. So that pretty much narrows down the differ- ence between the two types of equipment to film size. There is one item of readily available 35mm equipment that will help you with architectural pho- tography if you don't care to get involved with swings and tilts — and that's a perspective control lens. The front element of this lens moves both horizontal- ly and vertically. And with those movements it is often possible to keep your verti- cal or horizontal lines par- allel to the sides of the frame. The less movement really increases the cover- age you get from the lens (these lenses are normally 35mm) to about 24mm. And if you're practical minded, there's nothing that says you can't use your perspec- tive control lens as a regu- lar old 35mm lens whenev- er you need to. There's yet another lens that has application in ar- chitectural photography, but this unit has to come under the heading of highly specialized equipment. It's an anamorphic lens, and it has the unique characteris- tic of being able to make things appear taller than they really are. For example, if you were shooting' a church that had an abbreviated steeple and you felt that aesthetically the steeple should be taller, your anamorphic lens could do the job. Anamorphic lenses came into being when the motion picture industry began to go to wide screens. If the film was shot for wide screen use, some way was needed to squeeze that broad viewpoint into a standard size motion pic- ture film frame. With some anamorphic lenses, it's pos- sible to squeeze up to 50 percent more subject mat- ter into the horizontal por- tion of your picture; with other anamorphic lenses, it's possible to increase the frame content by 100 per- cent. 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