[Leica] IMGS: Another Church In New Mexico

[tedgrant at shaw.ca (Ted Grant)]

Bob Baron showed:
Subject: [Leica] IMGS: Another Church In New Mexico
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Hi Bob,
Just think of this as though your at the Leica Seminar last afternoon 
critique session! :-) So listen carefully to my voice! :-)

1/ These don't begin to touch your first church posting! Sorry that's 
life!But true!

2/ Of the four, only the last works because it has the least amount of 
distortion and it's an interesting photo. Good exposure no problem.

3/ Even though you are using a super wide angle 15mm  lens it doesn't mean 
it's Ok to have distortion!
As a matter of fact the distortion due to you not holding the camera 
properly, perfectly straight horizontally and vertically correct, tilting 
the camera up trying to get the whole building in you spoiled the impact of 
your photos.
Instead of tilting and screwing up the shape of the building you should have 
backed up to be able to hold camera correctly, eliminate the distortion even 
though you'd have a slightly smaller building image, it would be better! 
Even though you'd have a bigger foreground or sky area that would be better 
than tilting! Later in Photoshop you could slightly crop foreground or sky 
if necessary and still have the complete building without any curved corners 
and walls!

And! It wouldn't look like you were trying to squeeze a big building into a 
small box! As in I feel these are cropped too tightly and lose the pleasant 
open atmosphere we saw in the first post.

So there you go! :-)
cheers,
ted