First architecture/urban shot with 17-40L

This is my first serious attempt at a decent capture with the 17-40L I just picked up. I'm already looking forward to taking more architecture shots now that I have this lens at my disposal!

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Interesting shot....I like it.

Thank you!

I'd correct the barrel distortion and straighten the verticals, and then you'd have a winner.

So what you're saying is I need a TS-E lens?

It would be ideal for architecture, but you can fake it with photoshop (tilt, skew, warp, transform, etc). That's what I've been doing for six months haha. Most important thing for architecture is that there is no distortion, lest you piss off the builders and designers

Just keep it nice and level for shots likethis and you'll be golden

Yeah, actually I did straighten for the horizon but there's so much curve in the building that it looks "off" no matter what.

Do you use any automatic filters or plugins to remove the distortion, or do you manually do all the skew/warp/etc. stuff?

I use LensFix CL (it's an aperture plugin). I know that in photoshop if you go to filter-distort-lens correction you can do it that way also.

Excellent, I'm downloading the trial right now. As an Aperture user I'd rather have it inside the app than in Photoshop anyway...

Great sky! Very, very nice shot. No doubt about it, architectural photography needs straight verticals...if the facade is vertical. And if you can fix that the photo will be fantastic. Pretty daring, shooting into the sun like that, but it works great. The reflections in the glass are wonderful. Did I mention I like the sky?