I wanted to create a different take on the typical church down aisle shot. Standing to one side I used diagonal shift to make a front on looking shot, that kept the roof trusses parallel with the sensor, to look natural, avoiding horizontal keystoning.
Very few texts concerning the use of shift lenses never mention this useful technique.
I made this 3 frame HDR composite with a Nikon 24PC shift lens.
It looks very natural - I like it.
Alan
@NCV
Benches on the left side look shorter than on the right side. Aren't they supposed to be the same length? Also looks very narrow.
If you look at a well enlarge version of this shot, the benches are not too dissimilar (try the third bench in), but as the LH benches are further away form the camera than the RH ones, perspective effects will make then shorter.
The church is quite narrow.
Here is a more classical view.
Or a off center view with no diagonal shift,
I like all the different views. They are all very interesting and well-made; but, of course (!), I have some comments.
The first one on the page makes the nearest left hand pillar look larger (in diameter) than the one on the right.
I do not care for the symmetry of the second picture, but that is me. The two close pillars look as if they are oval in cross section.
The third picture, while a more incomplete view, is very "well posed" and free of the distortions of the other two.
I have also noticed similar distortions in my work with the Laowa shift lens, and do not know how to correct the them.
David
All these distortions are 'normal' perspective distortions due to the use of WA lens. For shift lenses they may occur asymmetrically, because centre of perspective lies not in the centre of image; resulting image can be seen as crop from image, taken with lens with shorter focal length - this amplifies perspective distortion even more.
Yes, I like the first one particularly. It looks very natural when viewed from the centre of perspective (approximately in line with the right-hand edge of the picture).
Whilst I won't pretend to understand the technicalities of shift lenses, I think this provides an interesting alternate view. All your church photos are superb, but it's good to see a different perspective
Tim
The 24PC and the 15mm Laowa shift, are not exempt from wide angle stretching at the frame borders. The ovalisation of circular subjects are another problem that is often present in wide angle shots, particularly with the Laowa 15mm. That is why I use a 35mm shift if space allows, for a more natural rendering. But sometimes the overall effect of the 15 shift is pretty stunning, visual warts and all. It is also a tool I use when I have no space to use a shorter lens, like the shot below
Duomo Modena. The only way to avoid the overhead tram line wires is to get close with the 15mm Laowa shift. The twin towers are the give away in this shot
