Luminous Landscape Forum
Equipment & Techniques => Landscape & Nature Photography => Topic started by: chris cramer on February 10, 2014, 10:49:49 pm
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again, pushing the definition of landscape, but since it's got some sky...
5d2 and 16-35/2.8
(http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7382/12448665834_4a356d2319_o.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/vortac1/12448665834/)
Winter Sunset on Capitol Hill (http://www.flickr.com/photos/vortac1/12448665834/) by Alter Your Perspective (http://www.flickr.com/people/vortac1/), on Flickr
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Killer sky, Chris. I like the composition too, although I do find the keystoning a bit distracting. Not much you can do about that unless you're using a tilt-shift lens. I've heard the new Photoshop CC has a pretty good distortion removal tool, too. Overall, really nice work!
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This is a 1-click fix in ACR now.
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Good light and colours.
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The sky is fantastic but I agree with previous comments about correcting keystoning.
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What's this key stoning you guys are referring to?
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Convergence of the vertical lines (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keystoning)! You can correct this with either Photoshop, ACR, Lightroom and other post-processing applications.
No need to perform a full 100% correction as it often looks unnatural.
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No need to perform a full 100% correction as it often looks unnatural.
yeah, i was gonna say... perspective. if you've ever stood at the base of a tall building and looked up...
i guess it doesn't bother me all that much in the OP... hmm.
it wasn't even shot that wide 26mm, so it's not like it's over exaggerated wide angle distortion.
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I would like to see it brightened up just a bit...nice image and colors though. Correcting perspective in photographs of buildings should be like anything else in photography...they are "choices we make" about what we want/need in the end. For books on architecture and architecture magazines - verticals are almost always straightened - but there is a reason for this. In other times and other applications one may (or may not) want to feel like the building is "towering above". For this image, I might straighten verticals up just a fraction. /B
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(http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3744/12461945924_d52c455e42_b.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/vortac1/12461945924/)
Winter Sunset at Utah's Capitol Hill (http://www.flickr.com/photos/vortac1/12461945924/) by Alter Your Perspective (http://www.flickr.com/people/vortac1/), on Flickr
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Both are very nice- it's always about the sky/clouds. I recently purchased a 24mm pc-e nikon in order to fix this kind of shot in the field.
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Two great shots, but
--> the first shows some burned colors (orange clouds) in the sky which need to be pulled back a little and
--> the second has burned whites which also should be fixed.
Cheers
~Chris
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To my (uncalibrated) eyes, the colors in the first are much more plausible than are those in the second version.
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To my (uncalibrated) eyes, the colors in the first are much more plausible than are those in the second version.
Still visible banding / burnt orange above and a bit right of the cupula - when you know it you see it and don't stop seeing it ...