hunter 0 Posted October 28, 2004 I am never quite satisfied with the photo's I take of very large objects; part of the thrill of seeing something like this in person is gaining an appreciation for the scale of things that humans can build. In the middle of the desert, without any surrounding items for scale its easy to loose the grandure. A baseball diamond can fit in the dish, it weighs 220 tons, the next one in the shot is nearly a mile in distance, and the whole array covers an area the size of Washington DC. What can I do in a situation like this to better portray the awsome size of the subject? Link to comment
olaf_maron 0 Posted October 28, 2004 I would put it in the Landscape part not Astrophotography. The only thing with astro here is the radiotelescope array. But as a landscape picture it is OK although the sky would be nicer with some clouds. This way it is quite boring. Link to comment
d_price 0 Posted October 29, 2004 Mabye a wider angle lens? Possibly parking a car next to the fence. I don't know how active the tracks are, but mabye a shot as the train goes by. Kinda hard to fathom how large they really are. Thanks for the stats though, after reading it, I look at them differently. Personally, I like the shot. Link to comment
marq 0 Posted November 12, 2004 Could you place somethin next to it to show scale? This has been one solution used throughout photographies history. Link to comment
hunter 0 Posted November 12, 2004 Here is another image from the VLA site, it does have items in it for scale, the pickup truck and the crane on the right, but it's not nearly as nice a photo in my opinion.. but it does show scale... http://www.humanhighway.net/albums/VLA/vla2.sized.jpg Link to comment
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