I made this photo on my last holiday. Unfortunately, I was limited to the 11mm of my Tokina lens. So I tried how to get the best out of the scene by rotating and shifting my camera to the worst. I should have made some steps to the right side though, this would have probably helped more (Back was no option because then the rose coloured windows would have been gone).
Now I have this pic with a quite bad perspective but very nice light and nice colours. I find it hard to find a nice crop and perspective shift without losing attraction.
How would you act on this photo. Everything is allowed, aside from leaving the original perspective and/or crop.
Just like announced here I will not post my version initially but only a ooc jpg.
I don’t think the perspective is too horrible. The most difficult thing to me was to get the image center somewhat vertical without cropping away the tip of the tower.
Else I did not change much. Actually I like this extreme perspective!
Here is my proposal. I adjusted the perspective manually without paying too much attention to the lines and numbers (MIDI controller).
I took the opportunity to present a bright version.
This was difficult for me. I think, mainly, because I have so little expereince in perspective control. I started trying to keep the spires and lampost (sculpture) both in the scene, but I didnt like the perspective correction when doing so. I couldnt get the buildings “right” (to my eye) and not make things look smeared out. Eventually, I focused on correcting the windows with the sky reflection and cropping out a LOT of the right hand side of the photo.
Its too bad because I liked the play between the spires and that statue/sculpture thing. I am sure others will do a much better job than I could…thankfully
+1EV in Filmulator then into GIMP. Unified transform tool to change perspective (twice I got it wrong the first time!)Then minor tweaks to contrast and saturation using luminosity masks.
A play using AgX. In my edit I used two instances of color calibration. The sky was kept at daylight but the buildings were given a warmer tone. IMG_1907.CR3.xmp (27.9 KB)
There are quite interesting solutions to my perspective problem.
Many of you chose to completely correct the whole thing. I tried this as well, but for me this looks somehow boring it takes some dynamic away.
Anyway, after seen all your suggestions, two stand out for me:
@dqpcoxeas leaving aside the mystic and dark mood (which I like), your just partly corrections look dynamic and yet natural.
@AtaraxicShrug On your second version with this tight crop the complete correction works suddenly excellent. The whole picture is natural yet dynamic and harmonic. Well done.
@david’s version is as well quite interesting. Do we have a possibility in darktable to stretch or compress a picture in one dimension, or do we need Gimp for such things?
This is my latest attempt. But I’m still not sure if this will be the final version of this picture. How does this work for you?
