{"id":3616,"date":"2016-11-21T18:04:00","date_gmt":"2016-11-21T23:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/?p=3616"},"modified":"2016-11-21T18:04:00","modified_gmt":"2016-11-21T23:04:00","slug":"belfries-clock-towers-cupolas-spires-et-al","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/?p=3616","title":{"rendered":"Belfries, Clock Towers, Cupolas, Spires, Et Al."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last Thursday morning, I meandered back home from Peterborough stopping to photograph buildings (or, more accurately, parts thereof) in Peterborough, Harrisville, Nelson, Hancock and Antrim.<\/p>\n<p>[scrollGallery id=492 &#8211; autoscroll = false width = 600 height = 600\u00a0useCaptions = true]<\/p>\n<p>Warning photographer talk follows:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">When one points a camera up, say to photograph a tall building, the optics cause the problem of converging verticals&#8230; \u00a0vertical lines, that are parallel in reality, look like they are converging and the building looks like it might fall over backwards.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">This problems can be overcome in three different ways. There are special cameras and lenses with &#8220;tilt shift&#8221; mechanisms that allow one to compensate for this effect. Digital photos may be corrected (to an extent) in the computer using the proper software. Lastly, there is the solution I used for many of the photographs in this post. Tip the camera so that there are no vertical lines. No verticals, no convergence&#8230; Simple as that!<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last Thursday morning, I meandered back home from Peterborough stopping to photograph buildings (or, more accurately, parts thereof) in Peterborough, Harrisville, Nelson, Hancock and Antrim. [scrollGallery id=492 &#8211; autoscroll = false width = 600 height = 600\u00a0useCaptions = true] Warning photographer talk follows: When one points a camera up, say to photograph a tall building, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[96,93,92,94],"tags":[56],"class_list":["post-3616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-architecture-2","category-landscapes-2","category-monadnock-region","category-november","tag-landscapes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3616"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3616\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3619,"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3616\/revisions\/3619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}