Tom
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Between performances at our recent concert seemed a good time to grab an updated photo of our ukulele band for our web site ( The Delta Strummers ). Several folks are traveling, but I planned to leave sufficient space at the extremes of the shot to be able to Photoshop these folks in later.
I was having some issues with my trusty Panasonic Lumix G7 camera and, thanks to prior cataract surgery, was having issues with near vision (didn't take my readers with me). Exposure was all wrong but, for the first time, I'd consciously set the G7 to record in both RAW and jpg, and I figured I'd use Photoshop to correct things later. Came to find out that my copy of PS Elements is no longer compatible with Windows, and it was too old to qualify for an upgrade. Before buying the latest PSE, I opted to download a trial version of On1Raw which claimed to do the same things as PSE.
After some quick learning (stumbling through it) I had a "usable" picture as a placeholder.
Meanwhile, someone with an iPhone took a couple of shots standing on a chair off to my right. Composition and the end result were quite different. I'd have used their picture but, when I cropped it and popped it on the web site, there was a significant "optical illusion" that caused me (far left) to appear noticeably shorter than the guy far right in the same row, although in reality he's not. Someone suggested this is "parallax", a term I haven't used/seen since working with and adjusting Oscilloscope screens in the 70's. Someone also suggested that parallax can be corrected in Photoshop. Anyone have experience with/fixing this?
BTW in another thread I mentioned that I failed to notice the potential for flash reflection, and failed to bounce the flash off the ceiling. So, not my best photography day
First pic: screenshot of the raw image; Second pic: corrected and cropped from raw; Third pic: iPhone pic showing parallax.
I was having some issues with my trusty Panasonic Lumix G7 camera and, thanks to prior cataract surgery, was having issues with near vision (didn't take my readers with me). Exposure was all wrong but, for the first time, I'd consciously set the G7 to record in both RAW and jpg, and I figured I'd use Photoshop to correct things later. Came to find out that my copy of PS Elements is no longer compatible with Windows, and it was too old to qualify for an upgrade. Before buying the latest PSE, I opted to download a trial version of On1Raw which claimed to do the same things as PSE.
After some quick learning (stumbling through it) I had a "usable" picture as a placeholder.
Meanwhile, someone with an iPhone took a couple of shots standing on a chair off to my right. Composition and the end result were quite different. I'd have used their picture but, when I cropped it and popped it on the web site, there was a significant "optical illusion" that caused me (far left) to appear noticeably shorter than the guy far right in the same row, although in reality he's not. Someone suggested this is "parallax", a term I haven't used/seen since working with and adjusting Oscilloscope screens in the 70's. Someone also suggested that parallax can be corrected in Photoshop. Anyone have experience with/fixing this?
BTW in another thread I mentioned that I failed to notice the potential for flash reflection, and failed to bounce the flash off the ceiling. So, not my best photography day
First pic: screenshot of the raw image; Second pic: corrected and cropped from raw; Third pic: iPhone pic showing parallax.