I'm pretty much brand new to all of this. I've read The Camera, and a bunch of stuff on the Internet about camera movements, so in theory I have some idea how all this works. In practice though,
this is the first thing I've really tried shooting with a view camera, as kind of a test, and I'm curious how more experienced folks would approach it.
My goal was to get the entire thing in focus, so conceptually I knew that I needed to swing the lens to the right to shift the plane of focus. My problem was that when it came to actually getting the right tilt to produce the right plane--especially combined with the fact that I needed the camera angled down to get it in view, as rise/fall weren't sufficient from that height--I found myself just kind of floundering around guessing at settings and never quite getting it right. Ultimately I did get the top part of the band a little more in focus than a normal camera would have allowed, but I totally lost the bottom.
How would you approach this more methodically? I've been thinking it might help to try to visualize the intersection of the subject plane and the image plane and aim the lens plane at that, but even then that seems like it would be very imprecise. Do you actually take measurements of the angles involved in this kind of situation, or is there a more intuitive way to do it?
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