From the course: Processing Large Scale Black-and-White Photographs with Aperture
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Straightening and cropping
From the course: Processing Large Scale Black-and-White Photographs with Aperture
Straightening and cropping
I want to talk about the cropping and straightening that was done to handful of these images, and talk about the reasoning or rationale behind each of the adjustments that was made. For this, we'll be working with three of eight images. I'll be talking about this shot here, which is the Brandenburg Tor in Berlin; this one, which is the very bleak crow in Mumbai, India; and then this shot of the Chinese junks in Halong Bay, Vietnam. So, going to back to the beginning, this is the one that gets adjusted the most. We can see right away that it is dramatically off kilter. I really can't explain why, because I know this was shot on a tripod, but I guess I just wasn't paying close enough attention. So, clearly this needs to be straightened, but also we have lot of dead space; a bit at the top, and a whole lot in the bottom. So, this image is really begging to be cropped in very wide format, and as you saw, it is going to be for the final image. So, let's start off with the Straightening…
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