A few June Pictures, Mainly Scottish Highlands

Frogwell · June 29, 2006

I've fallen behind on posting pictures of my travels of late, so here is a random selection taken from the past month. Apologies to those on dial up!

Malte · June 29, 2006

Absolutely breathtaking.

Very hard to pick favourites but numbers 4, 7 and 11 are stunning.

Malte

thebigsky · June 29, 2006

Gorgeous images! A couple need a little straightening but a wonderful series.

Frogwell · June 29, 2006

thebigsky wrote:

Gorgeous images! A couple need a little straightening but a wonderful series.

I think I must just have wonky eyeballs, I've given up straightening my pictures as they all seem lopsided

Lately, when I remember, I've been trying to keep things straight using the lines in the viewfinder though. I just don't remeber all that often

Nikolai · June 29, 2006

Awesome views!
I'm positively jealous!

I wish SoCal had so much water, our landscapes are a tad arid..

Thanks for sharing!

Scott_Quier · June 29, 2006

Frogwell wrote:

I think I must just have wonky eyeballs, I've given up straightening my pictures as they all seem lopsided

Lately, when I remember, I've been trying to keep things straight using the lines in the viewfinder though. I just don't remeber all that often

If you have PhotoShop, getting the image straight couldn't be easier. Using the measure tool, click on one spot on something that should either be horizontal or vertical and drag to another spot and release. Then, (going from memory here) Image -> Rotate -> Arbitrary amount. The extent of the rotation will be auto-filled by the angle between the line drawn above and either vertical or horizontal (as appropriate). Click OK and crop the image to get rid of the black stuff at the corners.

with all the WOW comments above. I love them all. My favorite (if you're interested) is #4. Put's me in mind of some sort of farie (sp?) land. Well done!

Nikolai · June 29, 2006

And if you shoot RAW

Scott_Quier wrote:

If you have PhotoShop, getting the image straight couldn't be easier...!

You can do it in ACR even easier by using its straightening tool.
I found myeslf doing most (if not all) of my cropping and straightening in ACR..

HTH

Frogwell · June 29, 2006

Scott_Quier wrote:

If you have PhotoShop, getting the image straight couldn't be easier. Using the measure tool, click on one spot on something that should either be horizontal or vertical and drag to another spot and release. Then, (going from memory here) Image -> Rotate -> Arbitrary amount. The extent of the rotation will be auto-filled by the angle between the line drawn above and either vertical or horizontal (as appropriate). Click OK and crop the image to get rid of the black stuff at the corners.

The problem with that is having to crop the edges, I really need a wider angle lense as it is. On the rare occasion I do straighten the pictures I normally do it by duplicating the layer, straightening the duplicate and then masking the edges to get a seem-less merge without losing any of the photo.

By and large though I find it easier to assume that everyone else has wonky eyeballs too

scoob · June 29, 2006

all of these are awesome!!! great series

gluwater · June 29, 2006

Frogwell wrote:

The problem with that is having to crop the edges, I really need a wider angle lense as it is. On the rare occasion I do straighten the pictures I normally do it by duplicating the layer, straightening the duplicate and then masking the edges to get a seem-less merge without losing any of the photo.

By and large though I find it easier to assume that everyone else has wonky eyeballs too

I know exactly what you mean. Even when I take my time and use a tripod I think my images are even more crooked. My picks are the 2nd and 10th.