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Lille — f/2.6, 1/400 sec

Can’t find much to write about this shot except that it would have been much better with less barrel distortion so as to emphasize the vertical lines. What do you think?

This photo was published on March 7, 2005 with the following tags: Architecture, Pentax Optio 330RS.

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Comments

Turfdigger on March 8, 2005 (#1)

Check out the Lens Fix and PanoTools plugins for this sort of correction - I use them myself to correct barrel distortion with the 18-55 kit lens for the Digital Rebel. I’m pretty sure that there are several Optio versions in the lens database.

http://www.kekus.com/plugin/index.html

Nicely seen - great juxtaposition of patterns and shapes!

Steve on March 8, 2005 (#2)

This shot works very well. The repeating patterns are beautiful and the different brick colors really almost makes this 2 photos in one!

Leigh on March 9, 2005 (#3)

Actually, I quite like the distortion, but then I’m a distortion freak - I like things to look different. Cool shot!

miles on March 9, 2005 (#4)

I like it but I think it might work better without the distortion. You can try using the punch/pinch filter in PS for a quick fix. It would work really well as an image split down the middle, it almost looks like different shots.

Simon on March 10, 2005 (#5)

I really like this. Great contrast between two completely different architectural styles, and the patterns are wonderful. Great photo.