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   Matt Blaze (mattblaze@federate.social)'s status on Friday, 13-Jun-2025 11:10:41 JST Matt Blaze

   Washington ("Hinckley") Hilton, Washington, DC, 2023.

   All the pixels, but no room service available, at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/53007102796

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     Matt Blaze (mattblaze@federate.social)'s status on Friday, 13-Jun-2025 11:11:29 JST Matt Blaze

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     The result here is about 170MP in 16x9 format, which is sufficient for very large prints that retain a great deal of detail (I've printed this at 6 feet wide).

     Mid-Century Modernist architecture, and Brutalism in particular, is easy to dismiss as being superficially lifeless and uninteresting, but at its best (and with the right eye) these buildings can be seen as sculptures in the landscape. I don't always appreciate them, but they're often more interesting than they first seem.

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     Matt Blaze (mattblaze@federate.social)'s status on Friday, 13-Jun-2025 11:11:30 JST Matt Blaze

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     This is a fairly conventional architectural composition, emphasizing the curved facade. To get a high resolution capture of the wide structure, this was made as a stitched composite of two captures with the Rodenstock 32mm/4.0 HR Digaron-W lens. The Phase One back was shifted left and right by about 12mm.

     By using shift movements at a fixed perspective, the two captures can be stitched directly together into a panorama without needing to transform the frame geometry (as you would with panning).

     Kim Scheinberg repeated this.