W/NW Perspective Corrected

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antiquark

Derek Ross
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Post pictures where you've gotten your verticals as vertical as possible. Any technique is allowed, even photoshop 🙂

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I am usually very careful about making sure at least one vertical is correctly vertical (or one horizontal correctly horizontal) in photos of buildings etc but am conscious that over doing it will result in odd looking photos in some instances (buildings do look slightly trapezoidal to our eye in real life due to perspective so over correcting perspective so everything looks rectangular can result in a strange photo.) Here I have been careful about the verticals but have left the horizontals at an angle as I am at an angle to the building and doing otherwise just would not work. Many of my photos will have a critical line aligned to the vertical or the horizontal and the rest are allowed to fall where they will. In some instances though I deliberately leave the verticals out of alignment for effect - but in these cases try to make it obvious that its not an accident by making sure that the angle is a fairly large one.

Here is a set - many building photos at the bottom illustrating this.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/80702381@N00/sets/72157610362797162/

BTW I use Paint Shop Pro Photo X2 which has a wonderful perspective correcting tool. It consists of 4 lines in the form of a rectangle on the screen which you "pull" to align to the various edges you want to be corrected. Click the button and its done. Much easier than the Photoshop tools I have seen. It also has a great vertical / horizontal correction tool that works on much the same principle except in this case its just a single line one the screen that you align to whatever line you wish to correct. Its smart enough to know if you want it to be vertical or horizontal.
 
I have a 17mm f/2.8 Olympus u4/3 lens I use on a Panasonic G1. The G1 does not correct distortion with Firmware, I think the EP-1 and 2 might...

So with subjects like below, will need a bit of correction.

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