Original | Photoshopped |
Custom Search
Wednesday, May 14, 2008
The Lees Benevolent Association Building
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
skip to main |
skip to sidebar
All Photos and text on this blog by Benjamin Madison are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 Unported License. For Permission to use write: madison at almudo dot fastmail dot us
Situated on the far west coast of Canada, on the southern tip of Vancouver Island, Victoria is the capital city of the Province of British Columbia. Its benign climate (the warmest winters in Canada) and placid lifestyle make it a favorite retirement location as well as a popular tourist destination. About 400,000 people live in Victoria and adjacent communities.
Click the photos to see them larger!
Click the photos to see them larger!
Blog Archive
-
▼
2008
(298)
-
▼
May
(31)
- Blacktail Doe
- Cricket
- Animals
- Landscapes and Figures
- Camosun - "Place to Gather Camas"
- Leviathan
- Victoria West Skate Park
- Craigdarroch Castle
- Dallas Road
- Before the Parade...
- Fisgard Light House
- Wisteria
- Parade
- Victoria Day Weekend 1
- Joggers
- Retirement
- Infinity
- The Lees Benevolent Association Building
- Style
- Everything Mural
- 5 Seedlings Telling a Joke to the Buddha
- Mount Douglas
- Trompe l'Oeil Trivia Quiz
- Skyscaper
- Impeccable Tourist Observing Tatty Photographer
- Johnson Street Bridge
- Point Ellice Bridge
- Chinese Public School
- Chancery Lane
- Barnacles
- Hopscotch
-
▼
May
(31)
"This site uses cookies from Google to deliver its services and analyze traffic. Your IP address and user-agent are shared with Google along with performance and security metrics to ensure quality of service, generate usage statistics, and to detect and address abuse."
All Photos and text on this blog by Benjamin Madison are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 Unported License. For Permission to use write: madison at almudo dot fastmail dot us
5 comments:
You know, I can't decide. I don't fuss with fixing the lines on mine, and sometimes they are really annoying. But there's something to be said for both of your examples. Someone once pointed out that it's our brains that make the compensation of perception, because we know the building is the same width all the way up. But things do get smaller with distance. So I guess it's finding the line between what the lens distorts, and what is really out there, if you want to play with it.
There's also some lens distortion in there because the line of the building bends outward near the middle.
I think that the type of photo dictates whether to correct the perspective or not. This photo is mainly a photo of the building, so having it bend away at the top is more distracting than the distortion of the man and the car. If the photo had focussed more on the man or some other subject, then the distortion on the building wouldn't need correction.
The straight one (on the right). With Photoshop you can stretch the shot a bit at the top to bring the building and man back to their correct height. You'll lose a little of the sky. Or you could do it from the bottom and lose a little of the street.
Thanks all for your comments and suggestions. I messed about with the photoshopped version a little more according to Jack's suggestion (above) and was able to correct the squashiness. But I notice that each time I distort the original I lose a little precious sharpness and clarity. I guess there's always a trade-off.
If you're losing "precious sharpness" it's more than likely because you're saving the file in a jpeg format and quite possibly at something less than a 12 quality as well.
If you're going to manipulate a photo, do your work on a copy and not the original file. Also, if you're not saving the file as a tif file you're throwing away pixels everytime you open, change anything at all, and re-save.
Post a Comment