I should have leveled 8671 a bit more. With 8670 I wanted to position the primary figures as you see them. I don’t spend s lot of time on these. They’re for the kids.
Paul > On Nov 1, 2018, at 9:18 PM, Igor PDML-StR <[email protected]> wrote: > > > A very nice set of action shots, Paul! (as we frequently witness here on the > list) > > > Your comment about the way you cropped got me puzzled and intrigued, > so, I was curious what happens in your photos in that regard. > > > My procedure of leveling (for non-landscape-with-clear-horizon-at-infinity > photographs) is the opposite to what you've described: > Usually, for the photographs that don't have a clear horizon at infinity, it > is hard to figure out which line is truly horizontal: > Even a small panning away from the point where you are looking at exactly the > right (90 degree) angle at that horizontal feature would make that line > non-horizontal. > > In contrast, the vertical lines remain vertical, unless you have a > perspective divergence/convergence (which is more prominent with > short-focal-length lenses). > > The perspective divergence/convergence (depending on whether your viewing > point is below or above that vertical feature end-point) happens on the > sides, so, even in case of that effect present, I usually rely on the > vertical features in the middle of the photograph: fence poles, light poles, > vertical building edges, etc. > > > So, while it is not very distracting, a few shots (e.g. 8671 with the guy > panning, or 8710) have the vertical lines (vertical fence poles in the > background) all leaning to the same side (to the left), which is non-physical. > > > I am not saying that all photos must be leveled, some photos a better > tilted. My comment is just on the procedure of what is the true > horizontal/vertical. > > Cheers, > > Igor > > PS. Of course various types of distortion, e.g. barrel distortion, can affect > how straight the lines are. But then one has to deal with those. :) > > >> On Thu, Nov 1, 2018 at 10:00 AM Paul Stenquist wrote: >> >> A small gallery of pics shot under the lights at a school stadium. Good >> illumination, but nowhere near daylight levels. To get F8 @ 1/640th I had >> to hoot at about ISO 30,000. The verticals are all cropped from >> horizontals. Most pics are cropped somewhat. I think they held up fairly >> well in terms of noise. All with K-1 and D FA 150-450. >> >> >> https://www.photo.net/gallery/1109225#//Sort-Newest/All-Categories/All-Time/Page-1 > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
