Three reviews in 1 day - WOW! Hats off to people who spare the time I say. I'll respond early as I might be off list for a week. My shot this week was just submitted as an experiment / bit of fun. Thanks to all three - apologies in advance to any subsequent reviews I might miss. The image was inspired by Peeter Vissak btw ... http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/photoforum/ptc/vag/pages/vag09.htm Emily L. Ferguson <elf@cape.com> > Bob Talbot - Perspective Bob, you do come up with the funniest ideas! Yes, it sure does illustrate perspective, but then the sidewalk alone would have done that. Sorry about the sky not working out. What did it look like? And what's the significance of the faces' facing? Looks slightly overexposed to me. Additive multiple exposures are tricky to calculate. The sky? Ah, yes, it actually worked out OK on all three frames. What didn't work was being able to simply superimpose/merge because the clouds moved so fast. Static features such as the building and road overlaid perfectly. It was about 30 sec per frame between repositions (deliberate speed to avoid movement - and the possibility of some walkers). The sky shown is the sky I had on the day, it's just 100% taken from the first of the three frames. As to the road alone demonstrating the perspective. I'm not convinced myself if that is true (geometrically of course it is, yes but visually?). Wide angle perspective makes objects placed at the sides of the frame look wider than those centrally. For grass/sky - well, wide grass looks like grass to me. It was literally 2-paces separation between the figures. Without scale it looks to me further. Overexposed? Maybe. Perhaps that's my scan. I was trying to get detail in the navy blue jacket. The exposures are not additive though. The scene was metered TTL and I added 1/3 stop exposure comp to allow for the 50% sky. Since the subject (dark clothes) occupied different fractions / positions in the frame I set the camera to M for all three frames - just as I do for stitching panoramas - I don't trust evaluative metering to give consistent results ;o) Jim Davis <ydavis@hkg.odn.ne.jp> Bob Talbot Perspective Bob, this is interesting. I like the poses and positioning and the whole idea is great. Inspirational to try something different myself. Thanks for sharing. Thanks. The important thing (for me) is to take ideas and develop them. Personally I don't think it's a great shot - but I already have ideas for something that may work pictorially from the act of trying it for myself. Heck, the whole shot including setting up the tripod and taking the three frames took under 5 minutes ... not much of a learning investment ;o) Thomas Dall <tdall@eso.org> Bob Talbot - Perspective Fun exercise, and the kind of thing that would get you into any photo salon a couple of years ago. (and maybe still some...). Other than the visual fun, it's hardly an interesting image. Thomas ... looked at from the viewpoint that every image must be pictorial then of course you are right. If I had any wish whatsoever to enter any salon - ever - I would not use this shot!!!!!!! To me though the PF gallery is about exploring and trying things as well as showing your best. I've read about matte boxes ... The conditions were right and with time on my hands I just tried it for myself. I don't remember seeing another example of this technique in the PF gallery (though of course Andy has some hidden away) ... so really that was enough excuse for me to submit it ;o) I promise my next shot using this technique will be better ;o) Bob
