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On Mar 1, 12:25 pm, Savageduck <savageduck1@{REMOVESPAM}me.com> wrote:
> On 2010-03-01 09:54:57 -0800, n...@wt.net said:
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> > Went on another quick image hunt yesterday..
> > I was mainly looking for stuff to use for lines and intersections.
> > But out of over 500+ shots, didn't get too much..
> > Shot too many pictures hanging out of the window of my car.
> > I think I need to go back and get out of the car to get better
> > views. But I had a small number that might be usable.
> > I'd like to go back and re-shoot the image of the church that
> > sits in a nest of skyscrapers.. Maybe get one with the church
> > centered up with the blue scraper behind it..
> > That one was not too bad as a B&W, but I decided to stick
> > with color as I like the blue building with the blue sky, etc..
> > But overall, it was kind of a crappy shoot I think..
> > But being I have no fear of hecklers, I'll still post a few..
> > The first two I kind of like.. The second two, hummm.. :/
> > I'm not sure I like the crop on dt15... I may redo it later.
> > BTW, I'm trying to keep the jpg's under 300k as I think
> > that is the limit for the shoot off deal.. Kind of degrades
> > things a bit, but oh well.. Another day, another $2.14...
>
> >http://home.comcast.net/~disk100/dt10.jpg
> >http://home.comcast.net/~disk100/dt12.jpg
> >http://home.comcast.net/~disk100/dt15.jpg
> >http://home.comcast.net/~disk100/dt19.jpg
>
> dt10, dt12 & dt19 are in my wishy-washy opinion great shots, though all
> three could benefit from slight tweeks by increasing the contrast and
> black levels slightly.
> ...and perhaps warming the white balance slightly.
>
> The tree in dt15, just doesn't work for me. Perhaps a different angle,
> or crop???
>
> All in all good work.
>
> --
> Regards,
>
> Savageduck

Yea, the more I look at 15, the more I don't like it..
I think I need to chunk that one in the dumpster.
I like the first two the best. Probably the first one
the best of the bunch.. I had to tweak dt12 to align
it. It was slightly off in the vertical. So I used Gimp
to straighten it out. And I had to compromise a bit
due to the lens distortion. That's one thing that gave
me fits doing a lot of them.. The "barrel" distortion
or whatever.. Or semi fisheye if I was at 28mm..
But many of the various focal lengths gave me
problems as far as keeping the vertical lines half
straight. I had many pictures that were OK camera
wise, but it was hard to crop and avoid the "goofy
angle" problem on buildings..

PTLens would help in PS or Elements, but the GIMP would probably do just as
well. Perspective is a frustrating animal to correct. I like what you did.
Thanks for sharing.