weezintrumpete wrote:
Great photos but it scares the crap out of me just looking at it!
Thanks. I think the photos come close, but if you saw it in real life it would surely give you vertigo and/or loose bowels. Those guys just saunter around up there. I'm pretty sure I saw them smoking a joint one day.
Yakim Peled wrote:
Well, it's a nice lens but it can't move.....
Happy shooting,
Yakim.
Agreed. The thing is, this is the first and only time I have ever really "needed" PC. I owned a shift lens in the past and not once did I find it useful. The fact that I have shot this architecture and needed PC is the exception, rather than the rule, so spending 2.5k on a 17mm T/S is simply out of the question. In fact, dumping $2.5k on anything other than my mortgage would be financial suicide for me.
Well, if you know things like that in advance you can just rent one. After all, you live in a big, modern and civilized country, not like other countries which I will not mention by name right now.
Cogitech,
great photos and the story is very interesting. Thanks for sharing.
I get the willy's just looking at those images and imagining the elements the craft-men work in.
That just blows my mind. I can't even fathom doing that myself. I'm not really afraid of heights, but being up there would freak the crap out of me (hopefully not literally).
Paul, that matter of falling panes is not as rare as one might think. I remember a famous building in Boston that was plagued by it, and our own Paris Opera-Bastille had to wear some kind of protecting netting to prevent people getting hurt. All this mere years after construction, and planning by a surfeit of architects and engineers....
Nice shots, BTW...:-)
Yeah, those first two shots are just sick-making. I can't tell from the picture - is that hoist just one damn post straight up in the air, or do they have some supports? I can't imagine riding up in that cart on a blustery day.
P.S. I actually think the uncorrected version of pic #1 works a lot better at conveying the scale and depth of the shot.
Joe, the scaffolding is tied into the building and then every so often the shaft (4-posted structure) is connected to the scaffolding, as you can see in the 3rd and 4th shots. After comparing them, I think I agree about the uncorrected version.
