References / Lenses & camera heights
Rooftop, 12 m up
Figures, a car and two low buildings from 12 m up, tilted 30° down: the fourth-floor window.
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What to look at
Figures are small ovals from here: shoulders and heads, almost no legs.
The two buildings' roofs read as rectangles on the ground grid.
Verticals converge to a nadir below; the further down you tilt, the stronger it gets.
The camera
| Lens | 28 mm on full frame |
| Camera height | 12 m above the floor (elevated) |
| Rotation | 32° to the scene's axes |
| Tilt | 30° down (three vanishing points) |
| Objects | figure 1.75 m · figure 1.75 m · figure 1.75 m · box 1.8 × 4.5 × 1.5 m · box 8 × 10 × 6 m · box 8 × 10 × 9 m |
| Floor | 1 m squares |
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