Stitching vs Tilt-Shift

[barondla]

 Interesting thread. Agree with Ron that many images today are flat and lifeless. Portrait photography has gone down that road and most images are boring. Recorded music has also removed all the dynamic range so everything is loud all the time. A shame. Ron I like your image.

  Have a suggestion for taming the bright windows some. Movie people put giant ND gels over the outside of the window to adjust the lighting ratio. Don't think it is real expensive since it doesn't have to be optical quality. Some car window tint film would probably do in a pinch.

 Blackcloudbrew, why do you want the 15 when you already have the 14mm lens? are you going to keep both?
thanks
barondla

[blackcloudbrew]

While in the UWA lens world every millimeter make a big difference, the DA 14 is f2.8 with 6 blade and the DA 15 limited is f4 with 7 blades. The two are really quite different and in the case of the 15, each one comes with special Pentax pixie dust in it. I will keep both too.

[Pacerr]

. . .  taming the bright windows some. Movie people put giant ND gels over the outside of the window to adjust the lighting ratio.    

Interesting idea. Makes me wonder if a roll of black nylon window screening material might not also do "in a pinch". It has a relatively neutral color effect, comes in various mesh density  and could be layered to vary the effect when hung as a shade curtain.

Rolled around a piece of 1/2" PVC pipe it would be light, easy to carry and store, and could be deployed hand-held or clamped to or hung from ??.

I've played with it for garden shots in the past just by holding a window screen in the light pattern but never used it as a large scale light shade.

Taking pictures through a window with and without a screen(s) should provide some idea of the ND effectiveness in EV.

(A stretched cheese clothe curtain??)

[Ron Kruger]

I have figured out the light-through-the-window problem. Just as with shooting outside, I shot during the low light of sunrise and sunset for a most pleasing natural glow. Such timing is much easier, and probably more pleasing, than climbing up to put something over two-story window.

[Pacerr]

Hey, now that's the most marvelous lighting solution I've ever heard of, Ron. The real pro touch at work, bud.

" Oh, yes. I really do need a free night in the Presidential Suite so I'll be fresh and ready to shoot in the evening and again at first light.  Uh, does that come with breakfast too?"