Just took this pic - Red Arrows (EDIT - Revised ;-))

I cant see any difference

 

All i can see is that your edit looks blurry. What am i missing?

 

Haha caused some scratching of heads this one!

The 'original' pic (Saturday) was such a cr4ppy overcast day the sky was just about B+W anyway. The metering / exposure on the camera made the foreground and buildings just about Black. Lightening the foreground was just about impossible, so I just went for Black and White.

The Z is from another photo, another day, taken from the same balcony, but parked in another space! I 'moved it'

The horizontal line halfway across is only cos I screwed up putting the B+W filter on, if i could be bothered I could re-do it and get rid of it.

Stella - Thanks for straightening my parallels. But I've absolutely no idea what that means nor can I really see a differerence....

Overall.....It's a combination of luck (lots) and aboout half an hour of novice photoshopping......


PS Wez .... you google earth'd me or something? Weirdo!

 

Boy got skills all in proportion as well

 

'Tis just me being pedantic really. On any photo that includes tall buildings, they always appear leaning in towards the middle of the picture. This is how the camera sees them, although your eyes/brain straightens them automatically.

In Photoshop, select all/edit/transform/skew and pull the two top corners out until the buildings are perfectly upright. That's all there is to it.

The photo competitions I sometimes compete in would knock points off for things like the buildings leaning in, or the horizon/sea not being straight.

But don't take me seriously, I think it's a cracking picture and I'd be proud if I'd taken it.

 

Nah thanks for the tip...might have a play doing that....

 

I was right

Ahh i see now Stella, Nice one.
Not somthing i take pictures off really so not looked into it.
What comps do you enter?

 

Used to enter the online ones on the Technology Vault, but I don't think they do them any more. Now I enter comps at local camera clubs round where I live.
Came second in intermediate section last time (twelve prints over a year entered). But obviously only show my good ones. I also take a lot of crap ones, too!

 

I see what you mean now, but IMO the original is a clearer image as when you've skewed it to line the buildings up it's blurred other parts of the picture. Horses for courses i guess!

 

that reminds me i need a debauched quayside flirtfest sometime soon

"EEEEEEEH ya cheeky tw@" etc

 

lol at Prof

Andy - I only grabbed the low-res off the screen, but it works better with a high-res original. As it stretches the top of the picture, presumably PS interpolates to allow for the skewing, so it wouldn't be as sharp.

It's not the perfect answer, but the alternative is a very expensive architectural lens ...................

 

Nice photo! And some great photoshopping from others too