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Re: Adventures with verticals
Dark slide wrote:
Purists be warned there is not a lot of Sigma in this post, if that offends look away now.
In this thread last week I posted End terrace because I had discovered new (to me at least) geometry fixing capability in Adobe Camera Raw, a one-button click to fix horizontal and vertical distortion.
#1, jpeg from unadjusted X3F
I went through my archive looking for other images with leaning or pregnant buildings. I found 4, three were much improved by the new button but one resisted.<big snip> Now a challenge, I have included the original (#1) so members can download and attempt a squaring up and further editing to improve on my #3. Interesting will be those who have third-party sharpening programs, e.g. Topaz. Please post here for comparisons. I award a prize of a gin and tonic, to myself, to anyone doing better. Cheers!
RawTherapee auto-crops during adjustment of vertical perspective:
Also adjusted LAB lightness, chroma, contrast and Contrast By Detail Levels.
Improves #3 ??
Some connected info. The building was The Indian Institute (hence the elephant weathervane) in Oxford built in the late 19th century for the purpose, at the time of the Raj, of training students to work in the Indian civil service and provide an insight for Brits into Indian people and culture. In 1968 a change of use and it became the Modern History Faculty concentrated on recent European history with India ignored. It changed again to become The Oxford Martin School, a facility for some 200 academics to brainstorm innovative solutions to problems (climate change, power generation etc etc) on an interdisciplinary basis.
Interesting, ta!
Controversy with India continues today. Some Indians are asking for the return of the Koh-i-Noor diamond, currently it is part of the crown worn by the appropriate woman at a Coronation. To avoid sensibility issues at the Coronation of King Charles III in May Queen-Consort Camilla will wear a different crown.
In my life if I have a pair of trousers in the laundry I have to find the other pair, for a Coronation some families have a surfeit of crowns.
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