Perspective correction

[Sailor Don]

When shooting photos of buildings, the issue of perspective sometimes becomes a problem. In this photo of an observation tower, I used Adobe Photoshop 6.0 to "correct" the perspective distortion in the original caused by aiming the camera up.

Does the digital editing make a better photograph?
http://users3.ev1.net/%7esailord/obstowercorrected_sm.jpg

[blinking8s]

i would have shot it from a funky angle and had fun with it, head on is just boring to me...but hey, i dont have a freakin clue what i am talking about...hehe

[NJPete]

I would have to say "no" since it seems to throw other sections of the image out of proportion. It is especially seen in the door/doorway. If you are going with a photo illustration, i would say cut the tower off of the "corrected" version and place it ontop of the "non-corrected" version.

NJPete

[Sailor Don]

NJPete,

I was "focused" so much on correcting the tower perspective that I forgot all about the door (and the ground level building).

Excellent point. Much more difficult to edit the way you suggest, but I might just try and experiment with it. If it works, I'll post it.

Thanks,

[Sailor Don]

After NJPete observed the distorted front door, I went back to Adobe Photoshop and found it is relatively simple to do a perspective distortion edit on just a portion of the image. In this case from the roof up. The result is as follows.

http://users3.ev1.net/~sailord/ObsTowerCorrectedNew_sm.jpg

[XXWoodmanXX]

Looks pretty good, IMO. :)


And hey,....alot cheaper than dropping a few grand on a tilt-shift lens. ;)

[ndh]

I like the 2nd try much better. That squished door just looked... odd in the first perspective-corrected image.

Really interesting building, by the way. I love the contrast between the stone construction and that "air traffic control" part at the top.

[ecobo]

Sometimes it is better to correct the perspective depending on the object of your photo and the shooting angle. In fact I correct the perspective very rarely. The most part of the architecture photos looks better with the perspective IMHO.