2015 Project 52 - 2nd Quarter - Kaye Leggett - week 14 - I should have kept quiet

[jcuknz]

I would suggest that the first problem is that you are using a wide-angle lens which may 'get everything in' but tends to distort.
As far as which side of the building to straighten ... why not both ... I wondered if it was possible ....and I put a loose selection tool around the building and played with the perspective tool .....this made it rather skinny so I used the re-size tool to increase its width by 10% without altering its height ....finally a bit of sharpening ...



I am using PSP which has layers and helps with things like this as for some reason I found my perspective modifications came up on a second layer which made subsequent operations easier.

[John 2]

Like John, I somehow missed this series Kaye. You've been having a rare old time. I particularly like the first balloon shot. Nice colours and BG.

[jcuknz]

It is funny that with the carraige on the right third and its bright red and yellow colour it was what I first saw and not until I read the comment about the bright light did I see it ... now I cannot stop looking at it

[Kaye Leggett]

I would suggest that the first problem is that you are using a wide-angle lens which may 'get everything in' but tends to distort.
As far as which side of the building to straighten ... why not both ... I wondered if it was possible ....and I put a loose selection tool around the building and played with the perspective tool .....this made it rather skinny so I used the re-size tool to increase its width by 10% without altering its height ....finally a bit of sharpening ...



I am using PSP which has layers and helps with things like this as for some reason I found my perspective modifications came up on a second layer which made subsequent operations easier.

Thanks for this help John. I couldn't get the technique to work with a selection, but did manage it with the whole image and using the perspective tool.

[Kaye Leggett]

Like John, I somehow missed this series Kaye. You've been having a rare old time. I particularly like the first balloon shot. Nice colours and BG.

Thanks John

[Kaye Leggett]

This week we had always planned to be at home so dumped loads of things that need to be done into it. This meant few photo opportunities....but we did manage a walk on Bournemouth Beach as a diversion to visiting relatives - the sun was shining and people were sunbathing, there were even a few mad people in the sea and cricket was being played.

However my attention was drawn to these

1 Beach huts in pastels



2 A sneaky shot inside



3 Time for a rest



4 And one of the reasons for our trip - to meet my 6 week old great Niece



Not sure if I have over done the colours on the deckchairs ?

And is it OK not to have the baby's full head ?

Other thoughts and C&C welcome

[Geoff F]

Very good, Kaye.

Beach huts seem to be often photographed but few have those nice pastel shades which you have captured here.

[IzzieK]

Kay the ones in the Brighton Beach where I have a house in Melbourne are colourful to say the least...these ones looks subtle considering...beautiful...and yes it is OK to cut off the baby's or a person's head in a close-up up to a point...

[Geoff F]

Regarding verticals, Kaye. All you can really do is to work from the most central vertical lines. This means some nearer the edges will be slanting to some extent; unless you do a skew transform then crop which will make everything plum upright.

I find that when doing a skew it is usually better to 'squash' the image slightly inwards instead of 'stretching' the sides outwards. Quite often it will require different amounts being applied to each side.

[Kaye Leggett]

Regarding verticals, Kaye. All you can really do is to work from the most central vertical lines. This means some nearer the edges will be slanting to some extent; unless you do a skew transform then crop which will make everything plum upright.

I find that when doing a skew it is usually better to 'squash' the image slightly inwards instead of 'stretching' the sides outwards. Quite often it will require different amounts being applied to each side.

Thanks for the help as ever Geoff - I am persevering with this and will try your technique too.

[Kaye Leggett]

Thanks Izzie and Geoff for comments on the beach huts - sometimes I think they're nice - sometimes not. Just can't decide whether beach huts should be in pastels.

[bnnrcn]

Very nice images, beautiful baby

[Kaye Leggett]

Thanks Binnur

[Kaye Leggett]

A very mixed week........but we did manage a day out to Ham House, on the banks of the River Thames in Surrey, a seventeenth Century house home to Charles 1 childhood whipping Boy. So named because if the king when a boy merited whipping because of his bad behaviour, his 'boy' took the punishment as one could not punish royalty! The king rewarded him in adult life with the gift of the house. He was a Scot and changed the law of succession for the house from English to Scottish Law so that his daughter could inherit - he had no sons.

She 'persuaded' Oliver Cromwell not to raise it to the ground during his reign and since the late 17th century much of the house remains unchanged. The Gardens are being restored to their 17th century design and using plants and varieties known to have existed at that time.

Here are my views of the house and garden

First the kitchen garden....



All produce is used in the café or in the house



Then the Parterre - the private garden of the lady of the house. It was designed to be an all year round open space and as well as a place to wander in to be viewed from it's raised terraces......





.....And from the lady's private rooms

[Shadowman]

This week we had always planned to be at home so dumped loads of things that need to be done into it. This meant few photo opportunities....but we did manage a walk on Bournemouth Beach as a diversion to visiting relatives - the sun was shining and people were sunbathing, there were even a few mad people in the sea and cricket was being played.

However my attention was drawn to these

1 Beach huts in pastels



2 A sneaky shot inside



3 Time for a rest



4 And one of the reasons for our trip - to meet my 6 week old great Niece



Not sure if I have over done the colours on the deckchairs ?

And is it OK not to have the baby's full head ?

Other thoughts and C&C welcome

Nice exploration of color and a cutie.

[Shadowman]

A very mixed week........but we did manage a day out to Ham House, on the banks of the River Thames in Surrey, a seventeenth Century house home to Charles 1 childhood whipping Boy. So named because if the king when a boy merited whipping because of his bad behaviour, his 'boy' took the punishment as one could not punish royalty! The king rewarded him in adult life with the gift of the house. He was a Scot and changed the law of succession for the house from English to Scottish Law so that his daughter could inherit - he had no sons.

She 'persuaded' Oliver Cromwell not to raise it to the ground during his reign and since the late 17th century much of the house remains unchanged. The Gardens are being restored to their 17th century design and using plants and varieties known to have existed at that time.

Here are my views of the house and garden

First the kitchen garden....



All produce is used in the café or in the house



Then the Parterre - the private garden of the lady of the house. It was designed to be an all year round open space and as well as a place to wander in to be viewed from it's raised terraces......





.....And from the lady's private rooms

Nice captures, nicely framed.

[Barbara Ponder]

Nice set Kaye. When seeing your photos I feel like I am traveling and seeing all kinds of interesting things! Thanks for sharing.

[bnnrcn]

Another week with nice images I loved the garden shot framed with bushes(?)

[Kaye Leggett]

Thanks John - each week seems to bring a new journey

[Kaye Leggett]

Nice set Kaye. When seeing your photos I feel like I am traveling and seeing all kinds of interesting things! Thanks for sharing.

Thank you so much Barbara. As this project has developed it is the travel that is inspiring me. I get other photo opportunities but it is the travel and exploration of new places and homing in on the character of where I am that is the challenge. I am so pleased you are enjoying it too.