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New York is a great place for walkin-around photography. I always suggest using a wide-angle lens to shoot buildings and architecture. Now, many people complain that it can distort lines and change the angles. This does not really bother me so much, because I think many people can take this wide-angle view in their mind and then re-calibrate everything to make sense. For example, that black building is obviously a square building with right angles, even though the top of it seems to have a 110 degree corner. Honestly, I don’t think 95% of viewers even think about it. They just see the photo and it "feels good" to them. I often have professional photographers come comment on my wide-angle architecture shots when the walls are not 90 degrees perpendicular to other objects. My response is, I’m sure to them, quite childish, since I usually say, "Who cares?"

Besides, using a wide-angle lens is usually the only way to get the whole scene inside of a rectangle, which, itself, is an arbitrary viewing shape.

from my daily photo blog at www.stuckincustoms.com

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across · from · Ground · Zero

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Format: Glass photonegative

Notes: First cars and trains across Sydney Harbour Bridge. Taken for the Sam Hood News Service. Official opening of the Sydney Harbour Bridge

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1932 · across · Bridge · cars · First · Harbour · Hood · March · Sydney · trains