Canon 24mm TSE: Austin, Texas Capitol Building II

More photos from downtown.

Confession time, I was actually trying to get a miniature effect from the top of this parking garage but I used the wrong aperture

One of those live and learn moments. Whih is also a good lesson, set your camera settings prior to arriving on location if you know you are there to achieve a specific shot or look. Sure, you should always check your settings anyway before shooting bu for some reason that day my brain had a short circuit

These first two once again represent a good example of a normal 24mm shot and then the same shot with the tilt/shift enabled. As you can see, it makes the dome much straighter than the normal 24mm shot (some of the normal 24mm shot might have been my fault having a sharp angle thus making the convergence seem that much more prevalent).

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This was a quick grab, would have loved to have spent more time with it, perhaps trying a HDR but I was pressed for time as it was. The coloring is just a little artistic PS license.

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This was using the tilt/shift to create some distortion, notice how elongated the dome of the capitol building is compared to the last shot.

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Canon 24mm TSE: Austin, Texas Capitol Building

I went downtown to actually shoot this from afar but couldn’t resist visiting the grounds since it was such a nice day…more specifically a great cloud day.

I also wanted to take a few standard 24mm shots and then some from the same perspective with the tilt/shift to give you an idea of the kinds of things this lens can do.

With Tilt/Shift

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Without:

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With Tilt/Shift

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Without

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24mm TSE: Austin’s 360 Bridge aka Pennybacker Bridge

This (Austin’s 360 Bridge also known as Pennybacker Bridge ) is one of my favorite landmarks to photograph in Austin. The only problem is that I’ve never been there to take pics @ sunset or sunrise………………….definitely a cardinal sin for sure for any photographer.

I have no excuses really, it’s close enough to me that it shouldn’t be a problem, I have just never taken the time (many things are like that).

This was a rare instance of free time recently that I was able to break away from the house for a couple of hours with my new lens. I wanted to see what the TSE lens would do with the bridge.

The few shots I was able to include a boat in seemed to work well with the “mini” look

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The shots that included the bridge didn’t exactly make it mini but it seemed interesting enough. I think being as close to the bridge as I was though, I’d need a much further vantage point in order to miniaturize the bridge.

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I like the way the shoreline trees came out through,

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And here I got lucky with a Ryder truck on the bridge itself.

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