Unconverge my verticals

[Boddie]

I may need help unconverging the verticals of my house which I am to photo tomorrow for a film location company. I am looking to photograph with a 12-24 mil lens as its a very tall georgian townhouse and I dont want anything detracting, so want to be close up.

Any ideas, or offers to do it for me?

Cheers

[ron1863]

Use Photoshop:

Converging Verticals

[Boddie]

I dont have Photoshop any more Ron.

Is this something you might be able to help with?

Please

[ron1863]

I could try but I have not had any experience with converging.
Why don't you place a copy of the photograph in this thread and I will give it a go. I am sure there are others who would help too, it would be a good exercise too.

Founf this online, hope it helps:

How to minimize converging verticals when shooting.
There are a number of ways to prevent converging verticals:

1. Keep the camera body level in the front-to-back plane when shooting. You can do this by putting
a bubble level in the hot-shoe of the camera body or on the top of the camera body and shoot
with a tripod.
2. Use the vertical edge of the image in the view-finder to judge how level the camera is. Just keep
the vertical edge of the view-finder lined up with a vertical in the image.
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3. Squat down lower than a normal standing position when shooting. This will tend to keep the
camera more level. Normally you tend to slant the camera downward when you shoot from a
standing position.

[Boddie]

Super, great idea Ron. Thanks for the suggestion. I'll take note of the shooting tips and see how it pans out tomorrow, then upload and then the competition begins.

Nice one

[eeyore]

If you had more time you could also hire a tilt/shift lens which would help keep the verticals parrallel - calumet have them but not on 24hrs notice.

also like ron said photoshop (Why dont you have it anymore btw), a man of your means could probably buy a copy , but you can also hire computer time at studios that have fast computers running it.

Also it might be worth looking at the GIMP (Gnu Image manipulation program) a free download from gnu soft which can do 95% of what photoshop does - including deconverging your verticals.

[ron1863]

Gimp is excellent Boddie, I downloaded it before I got Photoshop and as eeyore says it does most of what Photoshop can do but in a different way but then it's free.
Elements also does the job and is much cheaper.

[eeyore]

Originally Posted by ron1863

Elements also does the job and is much cheaper.

true and you can pick up elements in pc world, staples , etc so it would be available at short notice.

(come to that GIMP is a download so thats true of it too) - the link for the gimp site is here GIMP - The GNU Image Manipulation Program as its free i guess that doesnt contravene our no comercial links rule.

[Hobjob]

Originally Posted by Boddie

I may need help unconverging the verticals of my house which I am to photo tomorrow for a film location company. I am looking to photograph with a 12-24 mil lens as its a very tall georgian townhouse and I dont want anything detracting, so want to be close up.

Any ideas, or offers to do it for me?

Cheers

I've done it a few times Andrew, but you'll need the full file converting I suspect. It improves things a lot, but is not perfect - well mucking about with
perspective is often not going to look natural.

A friend has a Rioch (?sp) which does it in camera!!!

Can't do it till Tuesday at earliest though - Rainham tomorrow and moving
mother-in-law to Suffolk on Monday.

[Boddie]

Here we go

You can see my problem. Is it recoverable?