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bit of a late night lazy effort, someone in cologne has an artificial horse on their balcony, life size, i’ll see if i can find my picture
Thanks for the opportunity to play with this image. It is so open to interpretation. I experimented with base curve fusion, sigmoid and filmic. I settled on filmic. I also played with local contrast modules HDR preset for fun. DSC_2515.NEF.xmp (24.1 KB)
I agree. Full straightening usually looks overcorrected, it doesn’t fool the human eye. I believe the eye needs a bit of the original perspective retained for the image to still make intuitive sense. So the “correct amount of perspective correction” for any given image is always a compromise somewhere in between perfect full correction and the original perspective.
Edit: Just re-reading my comment, I’d like to clarify that I don’t mean to say that I put every image through perspective correction. The last sentence may come across as saying that I always straighten structures or such. To the contrary: on this image, like on many others, I’m torn on whether to even activate lens distortion and vignetting correction. Some images look far more powerful with the natural (i.e. actual, real) optical lens distortion in place, and I find that a heavy optical vignette can look fantastic in case the full uncropped image is used. I just don’t want to fall into automatic habits, especially with the basic steps of processing, because that would take away a lot of creative options.