Really love this. Hate to be a stickler but would like to see this straighter.or the left side a little more closely cropped. Everything including those flowers in the vases would pop more I think. It's a fantastic pic that isn't quite being shown to it's best advantage.
Hi Jozee, and I really appreciate the criticism... It didn't look quite right to me also -- but now I've fixed it up with a bit of Photoshop "skewing" and "scaling", but now the frame has a bit of "pincushioning" going on... I'm also not happy with the tonal range of those flowers -- I should try to fix those up a bit... Oh well, it's just a snapshot... You know, when I was a kid (a long, long time ago) I attended Brooks Institute of Photography, and they taught us how to deal with correcting converging lines (as in the original) with the swings and tilts on a 4X5 view camera... Still have the camera (Calumet with 210mm Symmar) but I have no intentions of getting back into sheet-film photos... I love the freedom of being "just a snapshooter"... If anybody wants to see the "unskewed" first version, click this...
I'm not sure what picushioning is but the tonal qualities that you may think are off are something I would like to intentionally achieve. They contribute to the uniquness of your pic. I love it!
Hi again, Jozee (isn't this fun?) Anyway, "pincushioning" is a lens abberation that bends straight things -- like a horizon or a picture frame... A buddy told me that some zoom lenses are well known for bending straight lines, but at this point I am hopelessly dependent on my zoom... And as for tonal qualities -- I generally need to boost lightness and contrast just slightly in all of my photos... In the photo of the painting I had to boost contrast more than I did lightness... I'm planning (drooling) on buying new camera equipment in soon... I currently use a Sony DSC-F717, but I think I want a Canon 5D with somelthing like a 75-300mm zoom lens... It's a lot of money, but I'm anxious to see what improvements a good camera will make... The D5 has a "full sized sensor", instead of the half-sized ones most of us have... Oh yes, I intend to start shooting in the RAW format too... So much to learn...
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Really love this. Hate to be a stickler but would like to see this straighter.or the left side a little more closely cropped. Everything including those flowers in the vases would pop more I think. It's a fantastic pic that isn't quite being shown to it's best advantage.
Hi Jozee, and I really appreciate the criticism... It didn't look quite right to me also -- but now I've fixed it up with a bit of Photoshop "skewing" and "scaling", but now the frame has a bit of "pincushioning" going on... I'm also not happy with the tonal range of those flowers -- I should try to fix those up a bit... Oh well, it's just a snapshot...
You know, when I was a kid (a long, long time ago) I attended Brooks Institute of Photography, and they taught us how to deal with correcting converging lines (as in the original) with the swings and tilts on a 4X5 view camera... Still have the camera (Calumet with 210mm Symmar) but I have no intentions of getting back into sheet-film photos... I love the freedom of being "just a snapshooter"...
If anybody wants to see the "unskewed" first version, click this...
I'm not sure what picushioning is but the tonal qualities that you may think are off are something I would like to intentionally achieve. They contribute to the uniquness of your pic.
I love it!
Hi again, Jozee (isn't this fun?)
Anyway, "pincushioning" is a lens abberation that bends straight things -- like a horizon or a picture frame... A buddy told me that some zoom lenses are well known for bending straight lines, but at this point I am hopelessly dependent on my zoom...
And as for tonal qualities -- I generally need to boost lightness and contrast just slightly in all of my photos... In the photo of the painting I had to boost contrast more than I did lightness...
I'm planning (drooling) on buying new camera equipment in soon... I currently use a Sony DSC-F717, but I think I want a Canon 5D with somelthing like a 75-300mm zoom lens... It's a lot of money, but I'm anxious to see what improvements a good camera will make... The D5 has a "full sized sensor", instead of the half-sized ones most of us have... Oh yes, I intend to start shooting in the RAW format too... So much to learn...
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