Hi all,
I'm sure you all have had problems photographing
sundial faces because you are not able to get your camara centered directly
over the center of the dial face. This is always a problem in
photographing vertical wall dials and horizontal doials that are on a high
pedestal. These off-center photo angles distort the look of a sundial and turn
square sundials into rectangles and round dials into elipses.
But I discovered that by using digital editing,
you can stretch or compress a photo so that it appears that camara was
directly over the dial! I discovered this while using the
"perspective" and "distort" features of Adobe Photo Delux.
To see an example of what this technique can do,
look at the NASS Registry fotos of the Flandrau Heliochronometer, dial #
464, Tucson Arizona. The first foto I took from a ladder. The 2ond foto below it
is the exact same foto artificially corrected to compensate for the perspective
distortion. The difference is amazing!
I think this is a wonderful tool for those
of us who photograph sundials.
John
John L. Carmichael Jr.
Sundial Sculptures 925 E. Foothills Dr. Tucson Arizona 85718 USA |
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