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[edit] Classical architecture photo assignment desk
WP needs more photography to illustrate surviving classical buildings of antiquity
- strong sunlight accentuates sculptural detail, whenever possible please.
- avoid wide angle lenses (short focal length), they distort.
- axonometric views are best obtained with a normal or portrait focal length some distance from the corner of a building
- shoot small details with telephoto lenses
- true optical sharpness can only be obtained with the camera held absolutely still. For most lighting conditions this means a tripod and the smallest lens apertures. Stopping down to small apertures usually entails long shutter speeds.
- hand-held shots can be made fairly sharp by using a shutter speed the reciprocal of the lens' focal length, e.g: for a 35mm format camera with a 100mm lens a shutter speed of 1/125th of a second will largely compensate for the hand-held sway. For a 250 mm lens you'd use 1/250th of a second
Arbo 16:02, 17 August 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Temple to Portunus — so-called "Fortuna Virilis"
The tetrastyle pseudoperipteral "Temple to Fortuna Virilis in the Forum Boarium, known as 'Fortunu Virilis' is dedicated to Portunus the tutelar divinity of the port on the nearby Tiber." — Henri Stierlin
A Henri Stierlin photo in Greece: From Mycenae to the Parthenon, Henri Stierlin, TASCHEN, 2004, shows the building free from obstructions on all sides, but I have no date for that pic. Contemporary www pics show dense folige obstructing the ground on either side, visible in Ryan's photo.
From examining numerous photos:
- Building is largely intact despite fire damage.
- Accessable from the front & rear.
- Front & rear tympanae intact and very complete, minus any sculpture that may have once occupied the pediments.
- A protective barrier surrounds it—very close to the temple itself, so you can get quite close to snap details.
Pics required
From the front:
- A straight-on view of the facade from some distance (approx. 10 - 20 ft); cars are able to park in front of it; shoot with normal to portrait focal length. Get as high up as possible to avoid keystone distortion by tiliting off horizontal plane.
- Axonometric views from both corners please, like the existing photo but if possible from further away shooting with normal to portrait lens.
- Ionic column bases damaged but still photographable, detail shots please.
- Entablature and Ionic capitals in excellent condition, detail shots.
- Complete row of dentils, detail shots.
- Steps in great condition, straight-on and axonometric views from both corners please.
From the rear:
- Engaged columns in rear wall of the cella, axonometric and straight-on views of columns please.
- Ionic fluting on inner pair of columns in excellent condition, one shaft of nearly complete fluting, detail shots of fluting please.
- half of brick veneer facing has crumbled off, remaining veneer is photographable.
Arbo 16:02, 17 August 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Basilica of Maxentius and Constantine
Apparently it is possible to get much closer to this structure than the vantage point of the current photo. I rewrote the descriptive text of this article based the plan drawing and axonometric reconstruction in the TASCHEN book The Roman Empire by Henri Stierlin.
- Position camera at left corner for axonometric view—in front of the dense clump of green bushes—between the bushes and the basilica.
- Tilt camera up slightly to capture the octagonal coffers on the arch ceilings of the cross vaults. Try to get the arcade running thru the center of the vaults at ground level in the same shot.
- The deep vaults cast a shadow over most of the coffers for most of the day. There may be only a narrow time frame when a portion of the coffers are lit by full sunlight.
Arbo 16:02, 17 August 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Temple of Saturn
The surviving freize is decorated with widely letter-spaced Roman inscriptional capitals, proof positive for typographers and lettering artists that the Romans were seriously into letterspacing on their public buildings
- Front-on telephoto views please, of the complete inscription and portions
- Individual letters or as close-up as equipment allows
Arbo 16:02, 17 August 2006 (UTC)
[edit] the Maison Carrée at Nimes
Hexastyle pseudoperipteral Roman temple on high podium reached by steps. A most classical form of Vitruvian design in a remarkable state of preservation. "Tuscan Corinthian" columns, band of very classical sculpted ornamentation runs around the frieze, very refined dentils, petrified drips everywhere.
- Existing WP pics by User:ChrisO (2 of them) are a great start, but much higher resolution shots are desirable, from all sides, front-on and axonometric views required
- Detail pics of column bases, fluting, capitals, entablature, decorated frieze and engaged columns embedded along the walls of the cella. These shots will require a tripod, telephoto lens(es) and long shutter speeds at small apertures.
Arbo 16:02, 17 August 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Reconstruction drawings, paintings and models
WP needs many more of these, preferably of much higher quality and larger/high resolution too.
So get out those art and history books, old encyclopedias and yearbooks, scan artwork in the public domain and upload it. Look for color guauche and illustrations—"artist's conception" style, especially reconstructions of Greek polychromy; Correct, Greek temples in antiquity were painted in lively colors, mostly the capitals, entablature and adorning sculpture, yet few of the articles on classical Greek architecture touch on this aspect. Arbo 16:02, 17 August 2006 (UTC)
Talk goes here.
[edit] Our recent exchange on Sans-serif
Hi, I posted a comment on Talk:Sans-serif about the "optically" thing. I'd like to hear your reasoning if you've got a sec. :) SFT | Talk 03:33, 15 September 2007 (UTC)
