wide angle perspective photos

Thanks guys. Lots of great shots in this thread. Doug, I am a big fan of your shot!
 
Here's one at Durham train station that depends *entirely*, but *entirely* on being shot with a 21mm (CV Color Skopar). Whether this is successful is another question.
 
Michael, I think it is very successful. I'm glad you didn't chop the bottom of the post that almost divides the picture. That area along the bottom gives the only real connection between the two sides proving they are indeed in the same universe. Well, maybe the red stripes could be seen as a conflicting sign of equivalency between them...

The steep perspective on the left gives the train a sense of dynamic speed. By contrast the darker, less colorful right side has much less perspective effect... It's static, and the seated figure emphasizes that. I think it works very well to give that train station feeling!
 
Gene -- Very cool, eh.

I figured I would post another. I always wished I was taller (I am 5'5"), and this photo makes me look that way!
 
peter_n said:
I like it too. I like yours as well, oftheherd. Very subtle color and I really like the composition with the building clipped at the top.

I'll bet people turn it upside-down because the full building in in the reflection...
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Thanks for your comments on mine Peter. I had been looking at that for some time and knew I not only wanted it, but wanted it on 6x7. When I got there and got the owner's permission, I discovered that it wasn't going to be just an easy straight shot.

This was the best I could get and I liked it at that. Wish I had had the 50mm then, but as I said, I really liked this image once I realized I was going to have to do something different than I had first thought. People always turn it upside down for sure, just as you said.

After I explain it, some approve and like the unusual aspect, others just quickly turn to the next photo. :rolleyes:
 
St. Patrick's Cathedral - NY

St. Patrick's Cathedral - NY

On a recent trip to New Jersey I had around 3 free hours which I spent wandering around Times Square. This is the interior of St. Patrick's Cathedra. This was taken with a Bessa R and 25mm skopar, handheld wide open at 1/30, w/ Kodak UC 400. Please pardon the poor scan.
 
Taken with a Mamiya 6, 50mm lens. The crowd is watching the judging at the local pet parade on Halloween day.
 
Wow. I do like this Manolo. No distortion and even a bit of OOF with the wide open 15mm! :) Was the end of the lens about an inch away from her nose? ;)
 
I really like that subway train photo (as well as the portrait under a tree.) It's cool the way the part of the train closer to the edge of the frame records as streakier than the central somewhat sharper train interior (which hasn't moved as much sideways to the film and is therefore less blurred.)
 
These pics look especially impressive/interesting if you stick your nose as close to them as possible - the WA perspective snaps into place and you really feel you are in the scene. E.G. with the shot of the girl by Manolo, i have the feeling my nose is touching her nose :)

Now i have to clean my monitor again.
 
I like all the shots except the portrait. I find the size of her head in relationship to the size of her neck and body just destroys it for me. To me, the distortion is too much for a portrait unless there is a obvious reason to do so (such as humor, etc). When I look at the portrait, all I can see is this huge head on a little body. Maybe its just the dark shirt with the lighter blotch since if I cover up the blotch, its still there, but not as bad.

I really like the last shot of the train. You can see the people inside the first car. Cool effect.
 
I think Pherdinand is exactly right, that the perspective becomes "normal" at very close viewing distance. Must be proportional to the camera-subject distance; put your eye where the camera lens was and it should look normal again.

In the same way, the "compressed" telephoto look comes from the camera being far from the subject... so when viewed far from the print, the perspective becomes "normal."

This is something I think should be taken into consideration in presenting photos for viewing. Large prints with the viewer forced at close distance for wide-angle shots, etc.
 
I don't know whether this would go better in the 'sprawl' thread or the wide angle. But the UK just doesn't manage to do sprawl in the way we do in the States. So here is another wide angle, Bessa R2 w. CV 21mm Color Skopar. Late at a local temple of consumption, where only a hot credit card can keep you warm:
 
The pic i attached to my earlier reply must have fallen off over (or under) the Atlantic. Here is the cosiness of a department store captured with my CV 25/4, one of few keepers from the first rolls with my new Bessa L.
 
Great shot Jacob. I'm sure I would have heard the sarcasm in your vioce if I heard you say, "... the coziness of a department store..." because the image is very impersonal, clinical, as though the store were a factory "processing" the small human figures visible but dwarfed by the escalator machinary. Well done!
 
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