architecture Prague Opera

Thank you.

Great shot and some great colours ,light and symmetry.

Fine photo of that beautiful building. I remember it from when I visited Prague 2 years ago but you've caught it magnificiently!!

Perfectos detalles y luz.

Abrazoos.

beautiful 6/6 anon

Great detail, light and tonality of a beautiful site.

I remember seeing an excellent production of Don Giovanni here.

Congrats, greetings from Portugal

I find the converging lines to be very distracting. The one problem with architectural photography is our eyes are programmed to see vertical lines as vertical. Unless you are doing it for an extreme effect, then it really becomes distracting. Granted, there are a lot of times where you simply cannot get a vantage point to keep straight lines straight. In that case I use as long a lens as I can get away with and leave enough room on the sides of the image that I do not crop out important parts of the image when I do the vertical perspective corrections in CS4

 

I straightened the lines as much as I could without having to crop out too much of the photo. Although I had to use the clone tool a good bit in the lower left and right corners and edges to restore image that was lost. I think this is a much more pleasing rendition of this beautiful building, without taking away any other elements of the photo, which is well lit and exposed.

Scott,

 

Thanks for your comments and taking the time to run this image through PS. In my personal oppinion the results from PS corrections are not pleasing to the eye, note how in your version the building appears somewhat "pulled" and heavyer at the top. I think that the only solution is a PC lens, otherwise the expected distortion, in this case from a 24-70, is preferable to the PS correction.

 

Regards, Alfredo

Alfredo,

 

The "pulled" or "stretched" rendition of the image after perspective correction is much more a function of the shorter focal length of the lens than the actual correction iteself. The wider the lens, the greater the perspective distortion, even if you were able to find a 20' ladder upon which to stand to take this photo. Wide angle lenses "stretch" the image at the edges, it's an optical fact of life that, unfortunately, we must all live with.

 

Yours is still a great image!

 

Scott