You will need to level the tripod, then level the camera. The camera back should be perpendicular to the ground. Assuming the tower is straight, it will then be straight on the image. Because the camera is pointing straight ahead, the top of the tower will likely be cut off.You then use front rise to bring the field of view up so the tower is in the field of view.
One could take a straight image of a building with any camera with a wide angle lens by leveling the camera, but the bottom half of the image would be below the horizon and not very useful, so that's why a camera with front rise is traditionally used.
A book like Steve Simmons' "Using the View Camera" is helpful to understand positioning the camera and using movements.
I live in the Atlanta area and never heard of the blue tower. It looks like a great subject - have fun!
Camera needs to be level and the film plane need to be plumb. Really pay attention to the image on the ground glass that’s the final word. It's helpful to have a gridded ground glass.
Looks like a cool building!
Roger
Because it is sad.Just a piece of trivia really but I am curious. Why is it called the Blue Tower? On my screen and compared with the blue sky background the tower looks to be much more green than blue?
Thanks
pentaxuser
Pity it looks to be more green with envy than blue with sadness.Because it is sad.
Are you sure?Pity it looks to be more green with envy than blue with sadness.
I live in the Atlanta area and never heard of the blue tower. It looks like a great subject - have fun!
Photoshop has long been easily able to correct for the "lean" if you're willing to lose a lot of real estate when the image shifts from rectangular to trapezoid. What are you looking to accomplish ?
View cameras have been able to easily correct for lean for about a 100 years longer the photoshop and not lose any real estate at all.
Roger (who has certainly correct verticals in Photoshop)
Thanks Ken and thank goodness it isn't just me. Before reading your post I had another look at the original and Matt King's picture and I now notice that Matt's blue sky is considerably deeper than the sky in the original which may help explain why what Matt sees and you and I see is subtly differentOn my ''screen" it seems to be more green than blue.. perhaps the 'yellow' from the setting sun is the reason...
Think primary colours [Brit spelling] .... yellow +blue IS green.
Ken
For clarity, what I posted reflects some quick digital colour correction toward the blue.Thanks Ken and thank goodness it isn't just me. Before reading your post I had another look at the original and Matt King's picture and I now notice that Matt's blue sky is considerably deeper than the sky in the original which may help explain why what Matt sees and you and I see is subtly different
pentaxuser
Yes it is the old story, Matt, how do we produce a scan that accurately reflects the actual print which in turn accurately reflects the actual colour of the tower, the "real" colour of which we still haven't been told. You'd think that as it is called the blue tower it will actually be blue but apart from me and your's and Ken's attempt to help, my question would appear to be of little interest to the OP. PityFor clarity, what I posted reflects some quick digital colour correction toward the blue.
I've no idea which, if any of the versions is more accurate to real life, I don't know.
I do know that the original cel phone photo could be anywhere from accurate to fanciful, when it comes to colour, and only the OP would know which.
I guess those who are "helping" simply don't realize that the OP didn't name the tower. Or program the color balance for smart phones, for that matter. But reddessert actually answered his question up top, so all's good.Hi everybody,
The poor OP just wanted some advice about how to square perspective with his new-to-him view camera. I don't think he anticipated an interrogation about the color balance of a cell phone photograph. Now the thread is totally cluttered up. If you simply google "Atlanta blue tower" you can satisfy curiosity about the purpose of the tower and even see some more images.
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