Shot Notes

This is a picture I took of the Gila Valley LDS Temple on a recent trip to Arizona.  It’s my first display of architectural photography and I immediately see some of the challenges.

For one, the wide angle I used on the lens makes it so that the lines aren’t going upward in a perfectly straight line.  That makes sense considering our eyes see much the same thing, but internally I think we have a tendency to “straighten” out the lines when we look at it.

It was a good time for a photo with the sun literally right behind the steeple.  It gives it that otherwordly glow that a temple should have.

The jpg compression really did a number on this one.  It looks much better in its RAW format.

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