They said I was daft to build a castle in a swamp. But I built it anyway, just to show 'em.
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Also, I donāt have that sort of money or anything near that. But if I did, Iād find a nice castle to rent a couple of weeks a year. A quick search shows castles in France you can rent for $5K a week, sleeping ten people. Again, beyond my means right now ā but hardly insane.
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Which is exactly why this actually might be a good deal - France is at a pretty low point with the economy, so prices are undoubtedly depressed. And when LāAirBetB takes off there, Iām sure this place will be a goldmine!
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This thing needs to be a club / rave venue!
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Buy it and turn it into a school for witches and wizards.
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Hell, even the ācamscannerā app on my android phone can fix this 
You and your bloody android phones. What about Lightroom? What about Aperture? No, itās always Android this and Android that.
Look I can get Bokeh worth of a noctilux by blurring! Wow, I just saved myself $10,000ā¦
Hereās a video that explains Tilt Shift Lenses-- youād think that anyone hired to make a castle in the middle of nowhere look good for sale would have this sort of thing.
I never really liked that canon tse 17mm. First f/4 meh, second itās very limited compared to the large format cameras itās mimicking and third Itās $2500. Better off just buying a nice piece of glass and correcting in digital-post-production. Or shoot your elevation with a 4x5 if your a real in camera purist.
Fist a disclaimer. I haveāt used tilt shift glass, nor have I really done much with architectural photography-- Iād probably start with a lensbaby-- provided that the lensbaby can be used for perspective correction-- a lot of reviewers have said that they canāt.
When you read Ansel Adams talk about lens movements, a lot of what he was trying to achieve was sharpness across his images-- no fancy blurriness. He belonged to the f/64 group. Of course, narrow apertures are somewhat more common on large formats than they are on 135, and the tyranny of optical design suggests that a f/1.4 300mm portrait lens is a pipe dream.
Architectural photography is about nonmoving subjects that cannot escape their backgrounds. If the lightās low, use a tripod-- preferably a level tripod. If the background is ugly enough to be blurred, perhaps it would be wiser to consult a landscape architect than it would be to deal with clients who can visit the site and see that the background is ugly.
If the f/4 17mm is sharp (and f/4 lenses can be [sharper than f2.8 lenses stopped down,] (Nikon 70-200mm f/4G vs f/2.8G) ), and the angle of view is useful for my subjects thatās all that mattersā¦
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f/4 lenses can be sharper than f2.8 lenses stopped down
[/quote]/\ interesting thank you for that!
Still for $2500 you can get something far more useful.
On the upside, for a cool 25.6 mil you could name the castle Radio Shack, and be the Viscount of Discounts.
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