Lancaster Opera House 2

On this one, again, I am specifically looking for comments regarding my perspective correction. I feel like it's obvious where I corrected. Do you see the places?

 

Any other comments are, of course, very welcome ... as are any of y'all's "versions". :-) Play away!! I'll include the original for comparison!

Any comments or ratings are appreciated!! :-)

very beautiful sky, complimented by the colour of the buildings, the whole scene gives me a feeling of serenity... and the perspective looks fine! (i wish you could tell us some tips some day ;-)

Mr. Christous,

With Photoshop just select all with an image with 8 bits and then edit, transform, perspective or distort with view, show, grid to see if the correction is well done. Good luck.

Jorge maio

Hi Christos - I'm still learning myself. I'm using the free transform tool with the control key (pc) in Photoshop cs. I select certain portions of the image that are "leaning", and try to stretch that section until it's "straight". Unfortunately, I find that it leaves huge gaps in the image, and I have to try to fill in those gaps in a way that is, hopefully, unnoticeable. There is one particular spot on this shot that jumps out at me as VERY noticeable ... I'm glad you didn't see it right away!

A very nice shot. REally like the colours here. WEll done.

Lou Ann, this is fantastic. The colors remind me of Francesco Martini's work.

Howdy neighbor just moved to old Virginia myself. Okay I have some questions and I have some comments. Q1 the buildings on the L/H side seem to leaning to the right? Q2 the sky is attractive and contrast the foreground well but is this result of layering+history brushing the foreground? C1 if you haven?t used your auto merge yet you might want to look and see if you have more than one photo of this scene and stitch the photos together allowing you to eliminate some of the foreground clutter.

 

Not that this has anything to do with this photo but I visited DC this Labor Day weekend I wanted to take some early morning or late night photos but found that I could not find my way around so good while driving. By the time I found a parking place and got set up I was kinda fed up with the light. So I am guessing that it is better to use the train and walking to the monuments and buildings? I also noted that the train stops running near midnight so what does one do for late night and early morning photography?

 

A very nice shot but with a little too much contrast that blocks the shadows.

JM

Hey, Gerry - e-mail me about going downtown at night ... it's actually very easy to drive around down there after rush hour ... you just need to know "THE" places to park. I'll answer the other questions later......

I love it, Lou Ann, and I'm glad that you didn't straighten everything out completely.

 

Are you a chemistry teacher? Not everyone does a self-portrait in front of a periodic chart!

No, Lannie ... if you click on the picture, my comment is that I'm a MATH teacher ... but the periodic table was the best backdrop we could find. There aren't a lot of great and colorful backdrops in our school. :-)

 

By the way, Lannie ... what are you thinking that I didn't straighten out completely in this???

Lou Ann, looks like you were on the right track. Just a bit more until vertical lines are perpendicular (use guidelines to gauge.) Although you can get a 100% perspective correction, just like a shift & tilt set up (large format,) the corrected image may look kind of strange (over corrected) for those who's not used to it. Here's your original, distort, and adjust accordingly. Lovely scene by the way. ^_^

I think you did pretty good, Lou Ann. I can't say I've really tried this myself, so you're learning something I haven't. If I ever find an interesting building to shoot, I'll email you for specifics. :)

This is a very nice scene Lou Ann. What time of day is this? You have great colors and I like the way you have adjusted the perspective. I remember studying math... calculus, one hour lecture for 12 hours homework...

very nice light and sky! the colors are amazing!

Hi y'all!! Thanks for the wonderful input.

 

Wilson - what tools are you using for correcting the perspective ... I think you're doing it differently than I am.

 

Becky - it was about an hour before sunset. It was a great sky on a rare sunny day during horribly rainy Buffalo summer. And, yes ... that sounds exactly like every Calculus class I've taken ... WAAAYYYY more time doing homework than sitting in class. :-)

I like this one, you did a great job on the perspective correction. I think Wilson uses the same tools I do. First under the Select menu choose All, then go to the Edit menu, choose Transform, then you can choose your choice of tools, perspective, Skew (which I use a lot), scale, rotate, etc. You can use them all, after using say Skew, double click the image, then go back to the Edit menu and choose Transform.....Scale, and correct the scaling. I never end up with holes. The sky is wonderful and the building looks very regal!

Splendid sky and very nice composition!

Lou, the color is the strength here. The composition is effective too. The impact is pretty strong. Overall all is very nice.

With PSCS, there is now a perspective correction option with the crop tool. Just learned about this recently. Think it's easier than the transform function. Very nice colors and composition here.

Lou Ann, I did pretty much the same as what Jayme described. I'm still using PS5 (dinosaur, I know, just so used to it that I never bother using 7 installed over 2 years!) Ken's discovery of automated perspective correction in PSCS sounds very enticing. ^_^

Nice job, Lou Ann, and a lot of good tips posted here.....

Nice scene and the perspective looks okay. Love the sky.

Great job, Lou Ann!! excellent colors, and light in this shot!