Tropicals & Tender Perennials: Brugmansia Strybing 'Vulsa', 0 by atisch

atisch wrote:
Lastly, and hopefully to make the point clearer, is the same flower as the preceding taken at the same time, but with the lens shooting directly from the side. This results in a photo of a trumpet that seems--to me--shorter than when shot from above and longer than when shot from beneath.

This effect of a wide angle lens is typically negligible for most flowers, e.g. roses, which are comparably wide and long (or deep). It's more significant for flowers like Brugmanisas, which are sometimes longer than they are wide. However, it can become a source of noticeable distortion for relatively long and narrow Brugs like sanguinea, vulcanicola and their hybrids, Vulsa.

Hopefully a professional photographer can explain this phenomenon in a more lucid fashion and also discuss how to best capture such flowers with the camera. The best I can do with my single lens camera to convey what the eye sees is to just present the flower from different angles and point it out. I hope this discussion makes some sense to most who've taken the trouble to read it.

Allan