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Good color mix. Light is nice from the varied sources. Distortion is a bit offputting, but really like the tonality.

Good color mix. Light is nice from the varied sources. Distortion is a bit offputting, but really like the tonality.

Thanks for your input. Excuse my ignorance, but I am not sure what you mean by distortion - if you can explain that will help a lot - and how to fix it, prevent it in future. Thanks again. JH

You are shooting this practically as an elevation, but the image is taken at table top height and then "tilted" up. Thus the ceiling line shoots down to the left, and the vertical wall behind the fan isn't really up/down, but tilted. With the lens you had, the tilt may have been the only way to get the whole composition into the picture. Consider another way, to avoid the presence of the non-parallel lines (unless wanted for effect, but usually disruptive).

 

in this image, your clean reference plane is the table top, interestingly enough, but it would have been stronger with the rest of the room also in order.

 

Imagine this with a 4x5 LF and what youd have done is kept the same height (probably) for the table top), but have levelled the film plane to be parallel with the wall.

 

One man's opinion, hope you don't mind.

 

Geoff

Thank you very much for your detailed and insightfull explanation. It makes a lot of sense and will definitely benefit me the next time I have the opportunity to take a similar photo. Truly appreciated. JH