Stretched Wedding Photo / How to Fix ?

[andrewaaa5]

I took this photo at a wedding this weekend, i used a wide angle lens (Tokina 12-24) but I seems to have messed this one up. To me anyway it looks like the heads are a bit stretched and the bodies a bit small:

does anyone think the same, or that it may need to be corrected, and finally, how? I have PS CS3. I am not concerned about the colours for now, or the cropping, or facial expressions (I can alter these later), it is just the distortion that I feel that it has:

oh, please feel free to download and have a go yourselves...

http://s3.bilder-hosting.de/img/5YDOX.jpg

[lkb-28]

Hello Andrew;

You can correct the distortion by playing with "Image, Transform, Perspective"...

It will take a bit of playing around to get the "perspective" you want, but it's quite easy to do...

Cheers;

Lee

[tim]

Lens correction filter in photoshop.

[andrewaaa5]

thanks... are we in agreeing here that this photo looks a 'bit' distorted? I've looked at it too many times now :(

[tim]

Yes, looks like you used a 15mm or so lens from up close instead of a longer lens from further back. Photoshop can make it look better. If you must take group shots from this close leave a bit of space around the people to make the PS work a bit easier - sometimes you lose edges.

[andrewaaa5]

yes, i learned a lesson from this shot. luckily I have other photos not so distorted to play with...

I'll give the lens correction / free transform / perspective a go later when I arrive home... (still at the office - ahem - working :) )

[bckane]

Ok I will give it a try....Transform Perspective and recrop....it better, and I think you can get it better if you play around with it

http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a276/bckane/5YDOXfix.jpg

[andrewaaa5]

i have used the 'free transform' loads before, but i just dont know how it can help in this case (i.e. i think i need to make some heads shorter, yet some bodies longer - and this is the part that I think is tricky....), but I will have a bash later...

[lkb-28]

Hi Andrew;

Still looks distorted to me...

You need to push the "perspective" IN...

Here's a very rough & ready play to give you an idea...

Lee

[andrewaaa5]

this is as good as it gets for me; what ya think? I replaced a few heads also (frankenstein style??)

http://s3.bilder-hosting.de/img/IZBHA.jpg

..and thanks for all the advise so far...

[howzitboy]

i think ikb-28's is the best.the others have the heads stretched a bit (unless they look like that)

[iof]

Download the trial version of PTLens at epaperpress.com and give it a try. My trial license has expired, and I haven't dececided whether I want to spend $15 on something I would use so infrequently, but if I remember correctly, it did some pretty amazing things.

[tim]

DxO Optics Pro can deal with this. I've got a trial version i'd like to give it a go with, i'll PM you my email address and i'll give it a go.

[Beau Hudspeth]

Here is another quick fix.

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