So about a month or so ago, John Moule came into my office with a proposition. It was almost like a scene out of a spy movie; my mission: to provide John with 15 photographs of San Luis Obispo historic buildings to print and frame for his new brewery, scheduled to open in October. I’ll be the first to admit that photographing buildings didn’t initially “do it for me.” But as I looked into it, I discovered that shooting buildings really isn’t that easy and static as I imagined. Okay, sure, they don’t move around, but the light sure does, not to mention the people, and the cars, and so on……. Needless to say, I have quickly realized that the have been several parameters to consider, in addition capturing aspects of the buildings that I find interesting to the eye.
Enter: the tilt shift lens.
After careful deliberation between the various voices in my head, I finally decided to rent a tilt shift lens rather than correct the common issue of converging parallel lines of a building with Photoshop. Based on a little Google research I found that the tilt shift lens makes for some interesting photographs rather than just helping a photographer straighten out the sides of his buildings. The tilt shift lens design also can create “shoebox” images that make the surrounding appear to miniaturized. Later I found an alternative method of accomplishing this in Photoshop. But nevermind that, the tilt shift lens moves around and stuff!!!! It’s cool!
So above is just one photograph of the famous Ah Louis store in downtown SLO. I kinda liked this photo because I purposely shot the building so that the building gets wider at the top. It kinda reminded me of the 80′s movie, “Beetlejuice” minus the frightening characters.
by Jon
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