Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/09/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Jeff, This is an interesting before and after comparison. He certainly looks taller in the after picture. I think he grew 2 inches. I like it. The perspective in the original wasn't so bad so the correction was not severe. But correcting the perspective on a tall building in PS is another story. You end up cropping too much of the photo. This is where the perspective control lens really shines. Not quite as good as a view camera but pretty good none the less. Of course when you took this photo a shift lens certainly wouldn't have been in your mind or your bag. Len On Sep 1, 2007, at 6:00 PM, Jeff Moore wrote: > So I grabbed this kind of posed-looking (though it wasn't) picture > outside the radio station, and the original > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jbm/scratch/jbm-20070831- > m8b-007-1440max.jpg.html > > looked, well, the way pictures with the camera tilted down look -- > converging verticals. Back in the day, if I'd been trying to get > fancy > and correct for that, I'd have busted out the tilt-shift lens (if I > happened to be lugging it around with me). But now, in this brave > modern world, I've (finally -- please don't laugh too much) stumbled > across the magic of the Free Transform in Photoshop. We don't need no > stinkin' shift lenses! > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jbm/pwigomlaap/jbm-20070831- > m8b-007-Edit-1280max.jpg.html > > Of course, Kathryn tells me he looks kind of pinheaded in the tweaked > version. I don't know if I'm completely sold, either. But it's a > cool > new (to me) trick. > > -Jeff > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information