I saw some recent pics of this place, and noticed how the angle that is forced on most photographers means that most pics are taken from the same place, and most pics show the emphasised height seen in the front vertex. It’s not only down to the enforced viewing angle, as this building it triangular in plan, so the corner is much sharper than normal, being closer to 60° than the more usual 90°.
This building is quite wide and, while not any sort of skyscraper, doesn’t have any potential vantage point for casual photographers to catch a full frontal view. Facing it across George Street are office buildings (actually the Graham Hills Building), so no way to get far enough back, unless with a crazy expensive wide-angle, or fisheye lens. There’s always the option of getting into those offices across the road, or even onto the roof – but that’s not going to happen anytime soon for the casual passer-by.
I guess just about everybody does the same – walks along George Street until the building fills the frame of the widest lens they have, then takes the (same) pic.
I guess this would be a good place to use a real (not toy) drone with a hi-def video camera (say a dSLR not a wide-angle action-cam), and carry out a scan of the whole façade, then process the result into a single flattened image – but I’m only guessing based on the work of others, and they may know a better way.
The skewed view could just be straightened of course, provided there were enough pixels, otherwise the result would be poor.
The building was just being completed when these pics were taken, so we got a handy description.
Technology And Innovation Centre Sign
Technology And Innovation Centre
Update
Probably with apologies to anybody who has decent editing software, I was poking around with some other images elsewhere, and couldn’t resist the temptation to see what fiddling with the above view, to flatten out the front elevation, would do.
It’s amusing, if nothing else.
Tech And Inno Edit
To make up for the preceding, here’s a somewhat later view, taken once all the works, barriers, and fences cluttering up the area had been cleared away. I was going to dump this pic, taken when I was suffering repeated condensation inside my lenses (courtesy of Scotland’s lovely weather at the time).
I actually feel more than a little envious of those who are now able to benefit from what’s on offer here, and maybe wish it had been around in my day.
Technology And Innovation Centre Cleared
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