South Orange Station

Detail, South Orange Station Viaduct

The devil is in the details. With D50 in hand, and 35mm f/1.8 mounted, I snapped this from street level. It’s maybe fifteen feet above the sidewalk. Short of using a very long lens and/or a stepladder, it’s difficult to get this shot without a perspective control lens. With Adobe Camera Raw however, it’s a fairly straightforward matter to correct it for perspective, and the results were quite pleasing.


This is the original image:

Original, unprocessed image.

The Nikon D50 produces very clean 6MP images, but unfortunately they don’t afford much extra resolution room for this kind of manipulation in ACR. Still, it’s much better than the iPhone 4S. To improve on this, I might shoot it with the D90 and a longer lens from farther away to gain an edge in resolution so ACR doesn’t have to work as hard to correct the perspective.