[BC] Negativity

[RichardBJohnson@comcast.net]

No. Look at the tree growing up the side of the cyclone fence right 
near the tower. This is not a distorted view. The other view shows a 
large tree in the ground system.

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Cheers,
Richard B. Johnson


  -------------- Original message ----------------------
From: "Glen Kippel" <glen.kippel at gmail.com>
 > You are quite right.  I would guess that the first picture was taken with a
 > 35-mm camera using at least a 200-mm lens.  A tripod would not have to be
 > used if reasonably fast film was used with a shutter speed of 1/250 or
 > faster.  On a reasonably sunny day this is quite doable.
 >
 > The second picture was taken with a wide-angle lens, perhaps 28-mm and
 > angled upward.  You can tell this because the towers are not parallel.  Just
 > as a long lens brings the background and foreground closer together, a
 > wide-angle pushes the perspective of the background farther away.  The tree
 > is nowhere near the towers, but is a fairly short tree close to the camera.
 >
 >
 > Deceptive?  Yes.  The only true perspective with a 35-mm camera is with a
 > focal length of around 50 to 55 mm.  This renders the perspective the way
 > the eye sees it.