Thanks Everyone - I'm getting some great stuff from this thread...


This is 17mm and the buildings and the Brooklyn Bridge appear realistic (aside from the muddy coloring - hasty ACR conversion). This is true mostly because I held the camera perpendicular to them? If I'd angled it downward to capture a boat going by (underneath the bridge I was standing on) then the distant buildings and the bridge would've definitely come out distorted...true?


What I'm getting at is - someone mentioned getting down low and shoot your foreground object from that vantage point to "tie in" the foreground and background. (the Angle Finder C is my next purchase, been coveting that thing for too long! w/out Live View it's almost essential for flat-on-your-stomach shots it seems to me). Anyway, now I'm wondering - when there isn't a foreground object, the angle you hold the camera is the most important thing right? Assuming you're going for an accurate representation of the scene of course...


5D 17-40mm @17mm, f/8 @ 1/200 ISO 800


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