2015 clematis

[topol]

Taken with Shutter Priority ['cos of the wind] 1 / 315, f 4.6, ISO 400
The bottom of the fence and the water-wheel trough are level, so why isn't the top of the fence?
DSCF0181 (copy) by Norman Hopkins, on Flickr

[Geoff F]

Top of the fence is further away, Norm.

All you can do with this sort of scene is to get the central verticals upright. Beyond that, it is a case of doing a bit of perspective transformation and forcing everything to become square. Then a final crop.

But this looks OK as it is now.

[Ziggy]

How long has this clematis been around? Great looking plant.

[selig1656]

Not sure but the picture seems to be lacking depth and the subject needs to pop a little more . Only my take .

[IzzieK]

Sorry Norm...I agree with Raymond here...+1 to his comment...

[Shadowman]

Looks like portions of the fence isn't straight, the trellis isn't. Nice capture.

[TonyW]

This could have been a good picture but to my eye needs a few corrections. Firstly it needs a perspective correction to get all the verticals looking vertical and all the horizontals horizontal. Secondly, there seems to be some lens distortion which makes the roofline curved. This could be corrected with Photoshop, for example.

I would prefer the crop to leave in the whole of the trellis on the right hand side with a bit of space beside it.

[topol]

Thanks for all your comments - appreciated.

The plant is about 3 years old.
Correction- I'm reliably informed it must be 5 years old
The brownish timber on the RH side is just leaning in the corner.
This is the original image - no pp done.
I too, agree with Raymond & Izzie.

The fence panels are as near to vertical as makes no difference, so the bottom is level.
The trough of the water-wheel is level, checked with spirit-level.
That being the case, I was trying to understand why the top [fence and roof] are not.

[pnodrog]

The fact that the fence boards are not vertical makes me suspect you may have been standing a fraction to the left of the clematis (water trough side) and the off center perspective has done the rest. Rotate the fence boards to vertical and you should see the top and bottom of the fence converge towards the right hand side with both slightly off horizontal.

[DougR]

Kinda in the shape of a T-Rex...those short little arms won't reach that blue bird...

[topol]

Maybe this one's a bit better?
The proximity of the houses would need PP above my pay scale.

[IzzieK]

How about this crop so that you do not have to worry about whether the top is straight or not...???

[topol]

It's a choice, isn't it?
Remove the top of the plant to remove the houses, or leave the houses to get the impact of full plant height.
Personally, in most cases I prefer not to crop as you suggest, but very often it's unavoidable, so thanks.
Ideally, PP the houses out, but as I said - above my pay scale.

[pnodrog]

A quick play with the first one with some perspective adjustment etc.

[bnnrcn]

Very nice image with lovely colors IMO all it needs is just a bit of PP. I like Paul's edit.