I took this photo on my first trip to India with my medium format film camera, the Mamiya RZ 67 and a 250mm lens, equivalent to a 135mm in the full frame digital format. It looks like I hired a group of women to pose for me, but this is total serendipity. They just happened to be framed by beautiful architecture, and when they saw me pointing a camera at them, they smiled self-consciously. The most important thing I had to pay attention to was positioning the camera and tripod precisely in the middle of the balcony along an imaginary line emanating from the middle of the central arch. Symmetry is very important when photographing architecture. I then had to orient the camera so the horizontal lines in the architecture were parallel with the top and bottom edges of the viewfinder. Before Photoshop, you couldn’t correct a a skewed picture. My settings were unrecorded, but they were probably 1/250, f/5.6, and I used Fujichrome Velvia (50 ISO) for the image.
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