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 “On
assignment for Shorenstein Realty, I was charged with getting the
best shots possible of a new 25 story, full city block property.
After jumping through a few hoops to get permission to get on top
of an adjacent building, I found that my prized Nikkor f4.5 90mm
lens was short of recording the entire property. My 75mm would have
covered it but would have produced the wide-angle distortion common
to that and wider lenses. Knowing that I may face this problem I
employed a technique I had employed before. I rotated the rear standard
to horizontal and shot the property in two sheets of film. Setting
my rear standard at the median point, I shot the two sheets by simply
shifting the rise and fall of the front standard up and down to
capture the entire property. As my output was to be digital anyway
and as it was shot on the same plain, stitching the images together
was very easy. With the aid of the extremely large image circle
in my lens I was able to shoot essentially a 5x8 image and as it
was shot on the same plain, the vanishing point was the same".
Eric Sahlin Photography
www.esimages.com
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tip you’d like to share with the membership please make sure
it’s 250 words or less, in Microsoft Word format, and send
it to editor@asmpnorcal.org.
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