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A Monochrome Victorian
30 September 2024
It was impossible to pass this stately, ornate, modestly painted Victorian with a camera in our pocket. We would have had to have had our examined. Again.
Monochrome Victorian. iPhone 15 Pro Max back triple camera at 6.8mm, f1.8, 1/6410 seconds and ISO 64. Processed in Adobe Camera Raw.
But when we pointed the lens up, the view was dizzying. We were too close. We couldn't wrap the frame around the facade.
Can you get too close to perfection? To something as beautiful as this?
We doubted we could but just to prove it, we took two shots. One no less appealing than the other.
When we got them up on the screen, we opted for the more intimate one.
Then we let Camera Raw do its work. Auto Geometry, Auto Edit. Then we made our adjustments. Dehaze, return Exposure to zero. Not much at all.
How can you improve on perfection?
Even Auto Edit, which Adobe tells us has been trained on Raw conversions, couldn't find much to do.
We attribute that not just to the paint but to the overcast lighting, which itself was a perfect diffusion of sunlight. Not dismal gray but a faraway neutral blue.
This conspiracy of beauty and perfection cheered us up on our short walk and later as we edited it. And we, expect, in days to come as we chance across this image here, too.