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Eponym · /r/photography
18 points
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10th Jul 2014

It's ironic that most of the images in the article show that the author doesn't know how to take proper architectural interior images (with the exception of images in talents 5 & 8, but those are material/abstract).

Rule #1 of architecture: 99% of your photos should be level with the horizon. Otherwise, you get falling verticles. If you don't have a tilt shift lens, at least apply vertical corrections in post. Here's a brief example of a vertical correction applied to the image in Rule 3 (ignore the clipped bottom corner, had I the original file it wouldn't be there).

Rule #2 Fix your lens distortions. Barrel distortions cause the building to have a fun house effect, albeit mild in this case. Both lightroom and photoshop have a quick and easy (not the best) barrel distortion slider. Even better is using profile corrections specific to your lens/body combo or opting for Dx0 Optics if you don't mind paying.

I'd recommend reading Adrian Schultz's Architectural Photography book, if you're wanting a bunch of info on how to shoot architecture.

Eponym · /r/photocritique
1 point
·
29th Jul 2014

I actually enjoy this ambient scene. I believe others are wanting your photo to be subject driven, but placing the boat on border allows me to breath in the moment and not draw my eyes on anything in particular. I wouldn't change much in your composition (except maybe to find a more organic element to replace the lamp pole). To make a few suggestions though:

I'd get into the practice of fixing barrel distortions and perfecting your geometry. If inorganic lines (i.e. lamp pole) are almost vertical in your scene, it's usually best to apply vertical corrections to your image (slightly skewed vertical lines add tension, which doesn't seem to be your intent with this nice relaxing scene). Also the horizontal road has a slight warp to it. If you use free software like ShiftN or Photoshop/LR Lens correction tool, you'll be able to fix all of these concerns. Here's a quick example of what I'm talking about.

phylk · /r/software
1 point
·
26th Sep 2012

I couldn't find anything. It is relatively painless to do manually in photoshop

http://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/using/adjusting-crop-rotation-canvas.html#transform_perspective_while_cropping

Edit:

I found this: http://www.shiftn.de/ which can do the perspective correction automatically, but doesn't do anything else. (I had to increase the 'minimum line length' parameter to 100 for it to work on documents, but it seems to work pretty well)

scientologist2 · /r/photocritique
1 point
·
22nd Aug 2011

  • the crop from the corrected perspective version is a simple basic crop in a standard ratio.

  • correcting the perspective is done in Photoshop using the Distortion filter effects. There is one in there called Lens Distortion which has a lot of options, and lets you do the tilting (up/down, left/right) easily.

  • alternately, there is a transformation in the Photoshop Edit menu that allows you to correct perspective as well, although this is not as easy as the Lens distortion filter.

  • alternately there are a number of lens distortion correction softwares out there. most are charged for, and some are priced reasonably.

http://www.google.com/search?q=lens+distortion+correction+software

Perspective correction is also available under transformation tools in Gimp.

You should also google for Perspective correction software

http://www.google.com/search?q=perspective+correction+software+freeware

also check out http://www.shiftn.de/