Motor Transport Museum of San Diego
During yesterday morning’s adventure beyond the boondocks, I found many subjects worthy of photography. One of them was the Motor Transport Museum of San Diego. It’s a huge factory from decades ago, too big to fit it all into my 28-300mm lens. Keeping in mind my previous work with the Photomerge function of Photoshop, I took five pictures and sent them to Photoshop, which gave me this:
As you can see, the picture’s a little crooked and the buildings seem to be leaning extraordinarily. Since there has not been an earthquake recently….
With previous landscape panoramas I have done, I simply cropped the picture to make it straight. However, landscape panoramas rarely have tilting buildings in them, so this is a perspective issue.
Fortunately, Photoshop can easily correct that, too. I simply clicked on the crop tool, then the perspective tool, drew a perspective box on the picture, adjusted the sides of the box to indicate what should be straight, and then clicked on okay. Photoshop worked its magic and gave me this:
Much better.
Unfortunately, the museum is only open from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. on Saturdays. I guess you know where I’m going on a future Saturday, probably sooner rather than later.
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Posted on September 26, 2012, in Adobe, Digital photo editing, How I Did It, Photos and tagged adobe photoshop cs6, adobe photoshop perspective, adobe photoshop photomerge, crop tool, motor transport museum of san diego, perspective box, perspective tool. Bookmark the permalink. 5 Comments.
Hi Russel,
For perspective correction I use my ACDSee 5.0, which is absolutely easy to handle for this. It does not allow me to “combine” different pictures into one, though. I came across a programme that can do that, called “photostitcher”, but I haven’t used that yet. I’m not sure if I need pictures taken from a tripo-mounted camera for that. I’ll have to see. Usually, when I need a real wide angle, I use my 10-20mm zoom, which I carry with me normally. But I usually don’t carry a tripod. Well, I need to do much more experimenting, I think. But back to ACDSee: for my limited purposes it’s the ideal programme, especially when you regards the relation of costs and results.
Take care, and have a good one,
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