London 1977
Peter MARSHALL
Chiswick House, Chiswick, 1977
10e404: Hounslow, house, gate, Palladian, pre-Victorian
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I don't know why, but I've always had a slight lean in my pictures which somehow have never looked right in the viewfinder if things are objectively level or vertical. This picture of Chiswick House takes it a little further than usual, and I would probably have corrected the lean to the right in the darkroom when making a print.
Making such corrections - and those of converging or diverging verticals is of course much easier with digital images, and I often do so. But working with these digital files from my old negatives I've almost always presented them with the exact framing as taken, as close to the full frame as possible. Perhaps because it would otherwise be something of a slippery slope.
But the slight tilt here could have been intentional, my reaction against the perfection of the building. Certainly the decision to put it off-centre, with one of the entrance pillars breaking the symmetry of the frontage was very deliberate.
Making such corrections - and those of converging or diverging verticals is of course much easier with digital images, and I often do so. But working with these digital files from my old negatives I've almost always presented them with the exact framing as taken, as close to the full frame as possible. Perhaps because it would otherwise be something of a slippery slope.
But the slight tilt here could have been intentional, my reaction against the perfection of the building. Certainly the decision to put it off-centre, with one of the entrance pillars breaking the symmetry of the frontage was very deliberate.