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Bunratty castle
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Quite an impressive building, I dont think the light did you any favours
though and maybe using a polarizer might have brought out a bit more
definition in the sky. Very hard to get a good shot of big tall buildings
they always look as it they are leaning backwards, I think you can “fix”
perspective issues in photoshop but I am not sure how something to do
with distort I think. :)the light wasn’t in my favour, i agree with that but on this shot the sky doesn’t bother me. wasn’t to much definition in the sky anyway, everything was grey. the distortion can be fixed either in photoshop or lightroom and are few ways of doing that: by modifying the distortion or by doing some perspective cropping. even lens correction is a good help for start. i tried to fix the photo but more than that gave me a strange looking ground and very un-natural shape on the guns.
thanks for your visit and your opinion, there’s always something to learn.You can only do so much with perspective in Photoshop before you start compromising the image but outside of all that, the image looks a little flat to me anyway. My suggestion for rescuing it would be convert to B&W, create a new Levels adjustment layer, darken the midtones and then using the layer mask, bring back some or all of the parts you want (the building and canons most likely). Doing this, I’ve actually managed to pull a little detail out of the sky. Yeah, I was surprised too. Flatten the layers at that stage and if you want, you could try bringing up a bit more with the Burn Tool. At this stage you’re probably going to be degrading the image a bit too much so only set the brush to 5% for a more gentle effect. Possibly adding some grain and maybe even some vignette might add some atmosphere to it as well. I’m not an expert in PS myself but hopefully this will give a more appealing result. Looked ok on my screen anyway.
Mark
markclehane wrote:
You can only do so much with perspective in Photoshop before you start compromising the image but outside of all that, the image looks a little flat to me anyway. My suggestion for rescuing it would be convert to B&W, create a new Levels adjustment layer, darken the midtones and then using the layer mask, bring back some or all of the parts you want (the building and canons most likely). Doing this, I’ve actually managed to pull a little detail out of the sky. Yeah, I was surprised too. Flatten the layers at that stage and if you want, you could try bringing up a bit more with the Burn Tool. At this stage you’re probably going to be degrading the image a bit too much so only set the brush to 5% for a more gentle effect. Possibly adding some grain and maybe even some vignette might add some atmosphere to it as well. I’m not an expert in PS myself but hopefully this will give a more appealing result. Looked ok on my screen anyway.
Mark
wasn’t impressed at all with the b&w conversion, the image was even more flat than now.
will try your suggestions. thanks! much appreciatedthanks Mark!
here is my result of your advice. much appreciated!
i know that the selection around the castle is not very precise, i’m not worried about that, i would like to see c&c about the general results. is it an improvement, does it looks better?
voicu
tall buildings can be corrected in three main ways:
shoot from far away
use a tilt and shift lens
or use perspective correction in PS or something similar. under filter > distort > lens correction, just remember that your image must be vertical in the center to start with then correct vertical further out then correct the barreling
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