buildings in an old small town in Kentucky

[pjflan7]

Welcome to Georgetown, where your Toyota Camry was made.....I made a quick walk of the city square just to record the architecture....not trying to do artistic shots ........the first of of Georgetown Baptist Church...I have been to a wedding here...beautiful inside and out....For you wide angle users out there...what goes on with the parallax lines which cause the lines to bend to the center?....Is that a sign of inferior quality lens or do all shots tend to do this?



another view



on a street corner.....this really needs to be in our curves post...note that there are three rows of windows......two with curved lintels and one with straight ones.....which rows are pleasing to the eye?



combination of lines and curves again....where do your eyes focus in this shot? what is pleasureable? distracting?

[Hayward Taylor]

Hi Patrick .... these are great images ... I like the architecture the most ... there is a lot going on here .. on the last photo, the color is the point of interest fo rme .. my eyes went straight there then I noticed the windows ..

[Vinam]

Well done Bud.. The Church is beautiful, I don't have a really wide angle, just my 18-55 kit lense, but I do see what you mean, it's really not that noticable to me, I am looking at the buildings.

I sell windows for a living, I will sometimes recommend changes to blueprints, sometimes adding archtop or roundtop windows or actually removing them. they have to fit the character of the structure and more is not always better. But people do love them as it adds alot of personality and interest. it's good for me too, they cost ALOT more then rectangle windows lol .

I really like the corner building, the horizontal lines and angles along with the curved shaps of the windows is really interesting.

Streetlamps are like park benches, they just about always add to a photo, your fourth image is off the hook !

thanks for showing them..

[Bernzfotos]

Great shots Patrick - that first shot is a gem. Cheers, Bernz

[dizwold]

nice set patrick as i love building shots,
I use wide angles a lot and when you open them right up you get this bending.
Sometimes its a great effect depends on how you want your image to look. I would say that its definately not any thing to do with lens quality. If the bending drives you crazy and it does some people use a different lens, sometimes i will just use a 50mm
cheers
mike

[Steves Shots]

These are really nice shots Patrick, great Architecture and love the composition on all, thanks for sharing, cheers Steve.

[beachcomber]

Your output and energy is impressive Patrick, balancing three member support threads and still posting your own pictures is not easy.

[Tenzin'sMom]

I really love that last one, Patrick -- the perspective makes such a difference in composition from the first two. And you even snuck a couple of triangles in there! The street lamp and the signs really add interest for me, and give me a sense that the context is a commercial area, not residential. The only small distraction (and I'm being pretty nit-picky here) is that the street lamp is not strictly vertical ... I'm sort of freaky about straight horizons, so I guess that's where that comes from.

[Jamie Hickey]

Great set Patrick! I like the older building shots with all the texture they seem to have opposed to buildings today. A lot of brick work. Nicely done my friend.