Home Sweet Home

[Ron Scubadiver]

Home Sweet Home by Ron Scubadiver, on Flickr

June, 2016, Nova Scotia, Canada

To me this suggests a happy lifestyle.

[Bjørn Rørslett]

.. and a relaxed attitude towards gardening....

[Frank Fremerey]

Hi Ron!

Is that the real geometry or did you do some geometrical correction. My architecture loving heart sees distortion correction at work that changed the original proportions.

Am I wrong?

Love

Frank

[Tristin]

Pretty image of a nice home!

I like the foliage, provides homes for your neighborhood wildlife. :-)

[Ron Scubadiver]

Thank you gentlemen.  Yes, I did some geometry corrections.  Frank, you have sharp eyes.  I do geometry corrections on female portraits, to make their legs look longer.  It's like crack.

[Frank Fremerey]

Try  to get the proportions back on track .... also with the girls...

[Ron Scubadiver]

Try  to get the proportions back on track .... also with the girls...

The proportions don't look off to me.  The best way to photograph a building is with a tilt shift lens.  I don't own one, and besides I can't  stand in front of a stranger's house with a tripod.  Only a photographer who knows this trick is going to notice anyway.

[pluton]

The bright, slightly directional overcast light goes well with the subject, Ron.  The house looks clean and well-maintained.  The patch of blue sky adds a temporal element.
I have found that the canned distortion corrections supplied by Adobe (ACR, Lightroom) aren't perfect. 
Also, I have found that most buildings aren't perfect, and that they get more imperfect with age.
And, that the street or surrounding structures (where applicable) aren't perfect either, and rarely line up with each other.

[Ron Scubadiver]

Also, I have found that most buildings aren't perfect, and that they get more imperfect with age.
And, that the street or surrounding structures (where applicable) aren't perfect either, and rarely line up with each other.

My house is over 50 years old and it sure isn't perfect.

[elsa hoffmann]

I am with Pluton - many valid points there my friend.
I wonder what the house looks and feels like inside

[Lars Hansen]

The proportions don't look off to me.  The best way to photograph a building is with a tilt shift lens.  I don't own one, and besides I can't  stand in front of a stranger's house with a tripod.  Only a photographer who knows this trick is going to notice anyway.

Great atmosphere Ron: house, garden, weather, light.

I also use the "poor mans tilt/shift" in post processing - sometimes I get busted .. many times I don't    I'm not able to spot it in your shot - I don't think I have the eye  for it. I'm very fond of imperfect old houses and the house I live in is 160 years old - it definitely shows. And I don't like strangers taking photos of the house - especially not on a tripod..   

Speaking of .. "Alan7140" at FZ wrote an article on using multiple shots and stitching as an alternative to using a tilt/shift lens.     

[Ron Scubadiver]

Great atmosphere Ron: house, garden, weather, light.

Speaking of .. "Alan7140" at FZ wrote an article on using multiple shots and stitching as an alternative to using a tilt/shift lens.     

Thank you.

I have tried that stitching technique at different locations.  In one case the result was dramatic, but not distortion free.  Alan is FZ's resident Fuji processing wiz.

[Mike G]

Obviously my eyesight is not as sharp as Frank's, I just find it a pleasing image!

[Hugh_3170]

I agree with Mike.

If anything, the corrections have acually been done too dammed well.  Leaving just a tad of distortion I find to be quite pleasing and in so doing it does make it harder for anal retentive people like myself to detect the fact that corrections have been applied in the first place!   

Corrected or not, many thanks to Ron for having posted a very delightful image in the first place - well most delightful to myself at least.

Obviously my eyesight is not as sharp as Frank's, I just find it a pleasing image!

[Ron Scubadiver]

Thank you Mike and Hugh.