Architectural photography : practical lessons and suggestions for amateurs . Flying Buttresses over ChoirAisle, Amiens Cathedral. Another common mistake is that of taking a view ofa front dead-on. All mystery immediately vanishes, and 38 Architectural Photography. an architectural diagram of an elevational character isobtained in place of a picture, with all the educationalvalue of a measured elevation drawing lost through theforeshortening due to perspective, which there are yet novanishing lines to discount. It is much better, therefore,to get sufficiently to one side to show the flank sligh
Architectural photography : practical lessons and suggestions for amateurs . Flying Buttresses over ChoirAisle, Amiens Cathedral. Another common mistake is that of taking a view ofa front dead-on. All mystery immediately vanishes, and 38 Architectural Photography. an architectural diagram of an elevational character isobtained in place of a picture, with all the educationalvalue of a measured elevation drawing lost through theforeshortening due to perspective, which there are yet novanishing lines to discount. It is much better, therefore,to get sufficiently to one side to show the flank slightly aswell as the front, and so to point the camera that even the. South Porch, Dol Cathedral. lines of the main front have a vanishing point, though itmay be a distant one. As an example of what is meant,the west front of Amiens Cathedral is illustrated—one ofthe very finest Gothic facades in Europe, and one whichwould make a fine elevational drawing; but a photographtaken from a point precisely opposite the central doorwould not look well, nor give the raison detre of the front
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