Hi Yoram, Geometrical properties have been “rectified” since photographic time immemorial (so to speak!) using tilts and shift controls on a view camera. In fact, in the 50’s and even into 60s if an architectural photograph was not corrected for converging verticals it was deemed to have a flaw. The interesting thing to me though is that we actually “see” converging verticals when we look up when near a building. But perspective works both on a horizontal plane as well as a vertical one. In fact, actually we do not “see” in a rectilinear manner at all … we are surrounded buy curves. And I am not talking of the human kind. Andreas Feininger made a series of photographs included in one of his books demonstrating this and I am merely repeating what he pointed out … but which I believe had been pointed out way in the past by others as well. Maybe going back to historical Greek architects and such. But, I am out of my league with this … just mumbling away on a Saturday evening. Best to all, Andy On Aug 29, 2015, at 10:51 PM, YGelmanPhoto <ygelmanphoto@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hmmm. I also thought about righting the verticals, but IMO the image lost the sense of height -- making it less interesting. But thank you for your comment. I guess I'm willing to distort some visual properties in post processing, like tone and contrast and such, but not so willing to distort geometrical properties. Just me. . . so far. > > -yoram > > > -- www.ygelmanphoto.com > > On Sat, Aug 29, 2015 at 7:20 PM, Andrew Davidhazy <andpph@xxxxxxx> wrote: > Brief personal observations about PF photos this past week. > > Yoram Gelman - Manhattan Reflection - visually quite appealing IMO. I wonder what it would look,like if the verticals were made to be vertical ... I tried it ... and liked that version as well ... maybe better! > . . . > > Andy > >
