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Monday, September 04, 2006
Keeping Uprights Upright, Part II
There is a second way to keep uprights unkeystoned, using Photoshop, or other editing programs. Take the image with the camera's film plane and lens vertically parallel to the sides of the structure (as most photographers have to using fixed body cameras like point-and-shooters, 35mm body cameras, etc.). This will most likely result in an image where the structure has too much foreground and not enough sky. This is a common problem for those taking images with a camera with too long a lens. Having to get back in a field to get the whole building in the image will usually result in this type of image, with more field than you probably want.
Photoshop comes to the rescue. My solution is to increase the size of the canvas upward in Photoshop. This allows me clone in more sky above the building. I then crop the image back to my original aspect ratio, and I have less ground and more sky, a better look.
There is a second way to keep uprights unkeystoned, using Photoshop, or other editing programs. Take the image with the camera's film plane and lens vertically parallel to the sides of the structure (as most photographers have to using fixed body cameras like point-and-shooters, 35mm body cameras, etc.). This will most likely result in an image where the structure has too much foreground and not enough sky. This is a common problem for those taking images with a camera with too long a lens. Having to get back in a field to get the whole building in the image will usually result in this type of image, with more field than you probably want.
Photoshop comes to the rescue. My solution is to increase the size of the canvas upward in Photoshop. This allows me clone in more sky above the building. I then crop the image back to my original aspect ratio, and I have less ground and more sky, a better look.
