Walking Back (On Dartmoor)
Apr 18, 2019 17:53:20 #
No compositing required this time but a different treatment to my earlier post. It's the same valley, opposite direction.
I gave myself a project of using the 16-35mm wide angle lens for a week as I'd not made much use of it since purchase. Quite enjoyed it but obviously got some to learn yet. I can correct the general 'splay' of the fence posts as you see, but the two slanting posts in front of my wife I cannot. I guess its from the tilt of the camera. If I distort the thing enough to get them back upright it wrecks the shot. Does anyone have experience of this problem and ways to overcome? I'm thinking it must be a common fault for wide angle beginners.
I gave myself a project of using the 16-35mm wide angle lens for a week as I'd not made much use of it since purchase. Quite enjoyed it but obviously got some to learn yet. I can correct the general 'splay' of the fence posts as you see, but the two slanting posts in front of my wife I cannot. I guess its from the tilt of the camera. If I distort the thing enough to get them back upright it wrecks the shot. Does anyone have experience of this problem and ways to overcome? I'm thinking it must be a common fault for wide angle beginners.
Apr 18, 2019 17:58:41 #
Apr 18, 2019 18:04:36 #
It looks totally natural to me 
The only distortion I had with wide angle lens was at the very edges - objects leaning towards center.
The only distortion I had with wide angle lens was at the very edges - objects leaning towards center.Apr 18, 2019 18:15:02 #
Apr 18, 2019 18:22:20 #
Linda From Maine wrote:
It looks totally natural to me The only distortion I had with wide angle lens was at the very edges - objects leaning towards center.
The only distortion I had with wide angle lens was at the very edges - objects leaning towards center.The outer post each side leaned outwards with this shot Linda. I’m sure the camera must have been tilted up or down to affect it this way. A shot immediately before, with nobody at the style, shows those two posts that still lean badly in this shot are in fact upright - but the shot is more ‘square-on’ to the fence. To pose Lin I’ve moved left and probably tilted to get the horizon where I want it. Should have been aware but not enough experience with the lens.
Apr 18, 2019 18:57:39 #
Apr 19, 2019 04:00:43 #
Apr 19, 2019 07:07:05 #
I love the color palette, the matching tonal value of your wife’s head covering, her bag, and the dog fur make for a cohesive subject.
Apr 19, 2019 07:08:46 #
newriverpaddler
Loc: West Virginia
Why bother, really nice pic. Remember, nothing in nature is perfect and few things man made are either.
Apr 19, 2019 08:35:18 #
joehel2 wrote:
I love the color palette, the matching tonal value of your wife’s head covering, her bag, and the dog fur make for a cohesive subject.
The colour is graded using Lightroom, as is most of the processing. Just needed to remove a couple of over-colourful walkers in Ps.🤫
Thanks for your thoughts on it Joe.
Apr 19, 2019 08:38:01 #
newriverpaddler wrote:
Why bother, really nice pic. Remember, nothing in nature is perfect and few things man made are either.
Well, ‘cos it just ain’t right I guess - it’s bugging me. Must admit it didn’t bother me until I noticed what had happened. It will end up a Photoshop job I expect.
Thanks for commenting nrp.
Apr 19, 2019 09:15:18 #
Apr 19, 2019 09:52:51 #
You mention LR. What happens to the posts when you use the "lens correction" feature in LR? I've found that sometimes it helps. Sometimes it hinders! I don't worry about posts leaning. Old posts tend to lean.
Apr 19, 2019 10:06:10 #
jaymatt wrote:
Nice photo! Even better in dl.
Thanks John, Glad you like it.
Apr 19, 2019 10:14:05 #
AzPicLady wrote:
You mention LR. What happens to the posts when you use the "lens correction" feature in LR? I've found that sometimes it helps. Sometimes it hinders! I don't worry about posts leaning. Old posts tend to lean.
Lens corrections are not easy to control in Lr - if you want to retain as much of the original image as possible. With this moderate wide angle, correcting the outer two posts lost me some foreground that I wanted to keep. The two posts at the start of the style just could be corrected. So I went for the Transform options and got the outer posts where I like them, but those two inner posts seriously lost image surrounds when straightened. So, in the end I've done what I can in Ps and include the result here. Many thanks for your suggestions APL, I appreciate any help I get and the interest shown.
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