Mid Century Architecture in Hawai

[ShaneS]

Thank you Nandakumar! Tony, I will give that tool a try and see what I come up with - thank you for the tip!

[Dave Humphries]

Dave & Tony, I appreciate your thoughts and tips on perspective correction and to be honest these building gave me fits in post trying to get it right and it was hard to decide what to make straight. My adjustments were done in ACR but it might be worth looking at it in Photoshop. Do you prefer to do it in one tool or the other?

I used to always do it in PS, but more recently ACR has improved and with aid of grid (on Lens Corrections tabs), nowadays I often to it in ACR*. I may still go to PS if there's anything really awkward needing correction where being able to warp individual corners can help sometimes.

* In ACR (in PS CC), it is now easy to try the full automatic, or various types of partial automatic, or reset and manually adjust, alongside other distortion controls. If the aspect does get upset by the other adjustments, there's even a slider to fix that. Ensure you always have the CA and Lens Profile corrections enabled too.

Now I'm really bothered by #7 and will go back and take a look at it again. I chose to make the cream colored roof line and the right corner as my horizontal/vertical points and the left side did give me a bit of pause. I will focus on the interior windows and see where that gets me

Unless it is a sea horizon, I rarely go by the horizontals, preferring to use the verticals and, as said above, set rotation by what is (or will be after cropping) in the centre of the image - always supposing there is something there to allow that judgement to be made. Then the verticals for leaning.

That said, in #7, you are pretty much 'square on' to the building, so I guess it ought to look like that if it doesn't after rotation and verticals corrections.

Cheers, Dave

[dje]

As far as rotation and perspective issues this is where I am of two minds. Do we set up our composition to make artful use of these distortions or do we make every effort to correct them in PP? I suspect different folks would have different answers to that one, maybe even a different opinion on alternating days...

Shane I know how you feel and I think it depends on the situation. Sometimes everything needs to be vertical but other times, a partial adjustment can be enough to remove an un-natural or exaggerated look.

Apart from ACR, I sometimes use the little known perspective crop tool in PS. This can be found by right-clicking on the crop tool. You can find tutorials on it if you do a Google search.

Dave