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a ab Xx by mrcrow_uk, on Flickr1. Verticals!
2. the rod at the top is cut off
3. it could be a little brighter
much better now. You don't really need TSE lens if it is a small amount of correction needed. At over 30-40% it starts looking a little weird but I could only guess if that is any different with one of those. The files have so much resolution now that you can afford to lose that 10% to make it look straight.
ps when you correct verticals....do you set one and then try to correct the other
It's all very simple. Get the horizon 100% level or the middle verticals vertical (Same thing) and then adjust both edges in one go. If its a small amount you are finished at that point. Sometimes you need to change horizontal perspective a little too, but not very often. Extreme changes can have all sorts of negatives and you have to deal with that on an individual basis. They are best avoided where possible hence you always prefer to walk back and zoom in a little if possible and practical.
If there is room in the foreground, as with the building above you can keep everthing vertical by keeping the camera back vertical and taking the shot. This will give you a lot of foreground in the shot which you can then crop away. This gives you a more natural perspective than getting up close to the building and pointing the camera in the air.
That's certainly one good way of doing it and ideally there is also something to fill the foreground with so you don't have to crop [almost] anything out.
The problem with composing this way is that the foreground will make up 50% of the image, if you were to leave it uncroped the emphasis would then be on the foreground rather than the building. This technique is really just to keep the verticals vertical rather than a compositional technique. If you have a look at this example from one of my lectures on architectural photography you can see the uncropped version isn't a great composition.