Brighton Pavilion

[Dave61]

Brighton pavilion taken at this angle as, if it was straight from the back it would show a big block of flats behind it. I would like cc on this shot too please, as I think there might be some barrel distortion on it ?

Brighton Pavilion by David Ore, on Flickr

[Bill53]

Re: Brighton Pavilion

Not sure about barrel distortion Dave but definitely evidence of converging verticals.

Bill.

[Dave61]

Re: Brighton Pavilion

Not sure about barrel distortion Dave but definitely evidence of converging verticals.

Bill.

Thanks Bill, every time I take a shot of it I have to delete the photos, thought it was barrel distortion. How can I stop it doing converging verticals ?

[AndyMulhearn]

Re: Brighton Pavilion

Agree with Bill, definitely some converging verticals - characteristic of a very wide angle lens shot slightly off the horizontal. The shrt on flickr does't show any exif but I'm guessing something quite wide?

Easy enough to fix in lightroom with the lens corrections if you have a mind to.

[AndyMulhearn]

Re: Brighton Pavilion

And the flickr updates and it's the 18-135 so not as wide as I thought...

[Dave61]

Re: Brighton Pavilion

It was taken with the 18-135mm f/8

[Dave61]

Re: Brighton Pavilion

I have PS Elements 11 and Paintshop pro x8

[Bill53]

Re: Brighton Pavilion

Thanks Bill, every time I take a shot of it I have to delete the photos, thought it was barrel distortion. How can I stop it doing converging verticals ?

The only way to stop it is to ensure the camera is level when taking the shot. As Andy says though it is quite easy to correct, in elements there should be a facility to transform the image - you literally drag the corners to distort the image correcting the verticals.
Hope this makes sense.

Bill.

[Tigger]

Re: Brighton Pavilion

The only way to stop it is to ensure the camera is level when taking the shot. As Andy says though it is quite easy to correct, in elements there should be a facility to transform the image - you literally drag the corners to distort the image correcting the verticals.
Hope this makes sense.

Bill.

agree with Bill you need to make sure the camera is as level as possible, whilst you can do some fixing during PP I find its a good idea to get the things as level as possible right from the start

But also sorry the composition isn't really working for me with that big tree blocking the view - I understand the other side isn't good either, its just the tree is spoiling the view.. I've had this loads of times you see a stunning building but it doesn't matter where you go something spoils it

[Dave61]

Re: Brighton Pavilion

Thank you folks, I found a setting on PS last night so will have a go later. Thanks too Ian can see what you mean

[Stan]

Re: Brighton Pavilion

Converging verticals happen with any lens if the camera is tilted up or down as the top or bottom of the building is then further away from the camera sensor - rather like looking down a road where the road appears to get narrower the further into the distance you look.

There are a couple of ways to sort it, either using "correct camera distortion" under the filter tab or, the way I prefer - either on a duplicate layer or double click on the background to turn it into an editable layer, hold ctrl and T to enter free transform mode and right click on the image and choose distort from the options shown. This will give you "handles" at the corners and midway points which you then use to pull the image into shape

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Obviously as has been said the composition on this image isn't the best and in these circumstances, rather than trying to shoot the whole building look to pick out details such as just the domes themselves. We visited Brighton a couple of years ago and that's what we ended up doing.

As a general point, when shooting buildings, always leave plenty of spare canvas around the edges as correcting the verticals will bring the building closer to the edge of the frame

stan

[Dave61]

Re: Brighton Pavilion

Thank you Stan, think it could be an idea, like you said pick out bits like the dome. Thank you again