File talk:San Gregorio (Venise) - apse.jpg

Awfully over-improved

I think the photographer is proud to have visualized the canal in front of the building and the third apse (which is also shown by user:Jbribeiro1's photo).

But to get them depicted, he had to go too near to the building.

If a high object is photohraphed from such a little distance, the original photo has heavily slanting vertical lines.

If these lines are corrected to be parallel, the result mostly will be unnatural. If the same object would be taken from a larger distance and a central level, most angles were totally different.

Furthermore, the colours rather resemble a manually coloured black and white photo of about 1900 than presenting the real colours.

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  User:Archaeodontosaurus
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  believeble photo of user:Jbribeiro1

Please, don't take this message as a personal affront! It's only that photo.

--Ulamm (talk) 15:56, 2 January 2018 (UTC)

• @Ulamm: Discussions are never useless, and I always participate with pleasure. The distortion related to the proximity is acceptable and especially the apse is well described. The tourist cluster does not enrich the image. These images were competing in VI and one of them was elected. The colors are not very beautiful but a November light is not ideal. As I am staying in Venice for part of the year I am committed to doing it again with a 50mm and spring. --Archaeodontosaurus (talk) 17:08, 2 January 2018 (UTC)
  • @Archaeodontosaurus: , natural proportions are more important than the visibility of the small canal.
  • Jbribeiro1's = José Luiz's photo is excellent, not only for the perspective and the colours. It is showing on the square in front of the church, what in Venice is ordinary life. In mny places of the world a group of tourists would spoil the photo, in Venice such a small group of them does not. Venice has lived from travelling foreigners since the crusaders started here to the Holy Land (and once to Constantinople, instead). In the last century of the Republic of Venice, carnival was extended to eleven months of the year – in order to attract tourism.--Ulamm (talk) 21:18, 2 January 2018 (UTC)