Another of Botallack Tin Mine, Cornwall.

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Following on from my last post on this location, another of the Crowns and Pierce's engine houses at Botallack.

Andy Reed and I had a bit of a debate on the matter of converging (or diverging) verticals, perspectives, rotations and so on in which I belatedly conceded defeat. This one is perhaps more challenging. Taken using my old and long superceded Nikkor 24-120 f3.5-5.6D at 24mm, there are some interesting aberrations at the outer limits of the lens which surpass mere perspective.

Two versions, one before and one following a dramatic correction in which I haven't aimed for perfection, just improvement.

The image has undergone a mild pseudo HDR treatment from a single JPEG, and I fiddled with saturation, levels and sharpness. The light was very flat, with a typically Cornish damp sea haze.

Before

DSC_1162HDR2B.jpg




and after...

DCS_1162HDRstrB.jpg


Preferences one way or the other....?
 
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I prefer the 2nd version, mainly because the edge of the building is more square to the edge of the image and looks more square.
 
Like them both as i can't see any difference!! Lots of nice detail in the stonework!
 
The second is preferable...correcting the distortion has paid benefits, at least to my eye.
 
The 2nd one for me, I much prefer the straight verticals.
 
Hi horrocks, I prefer the second shot purely because everything looks a little more square in the frame however I would like to see it with the deeper greens & reds that the first image has. :)
 
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...however I would like to see it with the deeper greens & reds that the first image has. :)
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Oh! - I wasn't aware that I had changed them. I had to do quite a bit of cloning around the edges of the image, and I might have applied another mild USM, but I don't think I changed the saturation levels..

..mmm, now looking carefully, it might be a matter of a slightly higher contrast in #1.
 
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