Ultra Wide Angle Wishes

I wanted to shoot Wishes with the UWA this time, and I think I found a fairly decent location:

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Wow...any way to fix the distortion? ; Though it's kind of cool looking the way it is. Looks like you had a calm night. ; It was windy on my last trip and the fireworks were blown to the left all night long.

 

Scott - I'm not quite sure what you mean based on this comment and the one on Flickr. ; I already did a lot of distortion correcting, but clearly more is needed. ; Are you saying that the Castle should be rotated a little to the right? ; I plan on doing some more editing to this shot, so the feedback would be greatly appreciated!

 

Wow; that does look a whole lot better. ; What kind of distortion correction did you apply? ; Vertical? ; How many degrees did you rotate? ; Did you rotate the entire shot, or just the Castle?

Thanks!

 

Tom,

Craig's got what I was talking about. ; When I saw the image for the first time my mind had a hard time seeing the castle like that with the statue being straighter for some reason. ;

What Matt said on flickr made sense as both would be angled towards each other and (for me) make for a more pleasing composition. ; However, what Craig did is even better.

Again, an amazing shot and idea, Tom. ; You and the flickr group brought back some fabulous photos.

 

Here is the edit I made earlier:


I am not sure which I prefer. ; As Jeff pointed out earlier (his comment is gone now), there is less crowd here. I think the crowd added an important element to the shot. ; Maybe I should try to just rotate the Castle, and try to brush the 'lost parts' into the sky/crowd. ; That'd probably be a lot of work...

 

I do think the crowd is the best part of the picture- which is excellent by the way. ; Here is my take on the perspective control edit. ; I stretched the whole top and shifted it right- then stretched the whole thing a little taller to get rid of the squatty corrected-UWA look.

 

I definitely like this the best. ; Did you just use the free transform tool (or its equivalent in whatever editing program you use)?

I guess I will know what to do with the next one of these shots that I post. ; This is probably the most I have ever edited, re-edited, and re-edited once more, any shot. ; I really appreciate the feedback from everyone and the edited shots Craig and Jeff posted! ; Thanks guys.

 

Glad you like it- I use CS3. ; Steps were as follows (2 minutes tops)

Create a duplicate layer
View- Show- Grid-
Edit- Transform- Perspective- then pulled the top wider then shifted it right until it looked straight.
Edit- Free Transform- then pulled it up.
Erased the top left corner to bring back the watermark.
Flattened image layers

 

Amazing color in those pictures! ; Which wide angle lens was that? ; The same one you've posted other info about...the tokina 11-17?

You did an amazing job capturing that - really nice!

 

Another one - mostly using Jeff's editing method:

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Look at all those LCD screens. ; I wonder how many are from phones? ; How many are actually on tripods? ; Etc.

 

and how many actually came off...and how many flashes went off!

 

There you go, Tom. ; It's tough when you get stuff near the edges of a UWA and are unable to get the subjects in the same plane as the lens. ; You'd need a step ladder and one of these huge tripods someone showed us in another thread.

 

Thanks. ; That free transform tool is going to come in handy for correcting these UWA shots. ; I just have to be careful not to end up with even more odd distortions. ; Thankfully there I can undo any mistakes. ; I really can't wait to test out the UWA during Christmas at WDW. ; It'll have to wait until Christmas 2010, but I think I have some decent shot ideas already.