Penrhyn Castle (2)

I know this is not a wonderful image-- far from it for the simple reason I was too near the castle walls and couldn't get any further away without throwing myself over the boundary wall !!! From where I stood ,I used the facing corner of the central tower as my vertical as you can see . I have tried in editing and changing the vertical - but had no success in improving the image -- hence back to the original shot . I would love some constructive comments and advice .
I must admit I am not enthralled with the grey somber walls of the stone exterior walls but love the exuberance of the interior

[Rajan Samuel]

Love the stone along with blue cloudy sky!

[Graham Thresher]

This is a fantastic shot.personally I love this more traditional angle fav

[Tricia O'Donnell]

so beautiful love the old Castle

[Maggiemae]

It looks quite a wide scene to take in all at once! ....and as you say, the vertical changes with wide angle! But in this shot, I do feel I'm there !

[Rona]

Great chot and perspective :)

[mittens (Marilyn)]

What a beautiful looking place and a lovely capture of it.

[Bob Zwolinsky]

I always find it hard to decide what is going to be vertical on this type of shot. My solution would be to crop off the leaning wall, that way you still have a strong lead in from the wall on the right and an imposing building to look at.

[Ivan]

Like it - fav! In PS you can fiddle with Perspective Control - otherwise 90% of my pix would be crooked! Fav anyway!!!

[Pat Knowles]

So well. Hilt Beryl, I think you have picked the right structure to be your vertical but it is notoriously difficult......pretend you used a fish eye lens!

[carol white]

These shots are difficult to get the perpendicular,just to annoy us!! A lovely shot,nice old stonework:-)

[wendy frost]

A super castle capture against the blue sky

[Judith Johnson]

It is such an elegant building. Hard to say how to improve the verticals. I once had some criticism about a similar problem but there really wasn't anything I could have done,

[Pyrrhula]

A great view on and a beautiful capture of this castle .
With ordinary / normal camera`s you can`t avoid this . You need a professional technical camera for it.

[virtualbrownie]

It is a lovely place though last time I went round I was pushing a wheelchair up the so called wheelchair friendly slopes. Lovely crisp shot

[Paula W]

Looks like an impressive castle Beryl, I think the grey walls look good against the blue sky. I don't know how to avoid the problems with vertical distortion I'm afraid, especially when there are so many verticals!

[Rita]

looks pretty good to me, so pleased you did not throw yourself over!

[🐞Lucy Dolittle]

Wonderful shot Beryl, what beautiful blue skies and amazing walls

[Cathy Donohoue]

Beryl I think it is a super example. The only thing that I know of is if you invested in a wide angle lens. You can be very close and get the entirety. Or take several shots and stitch them together. I love it as is.

[Babs]

Super image, but if you want to straighten up the walls you can do that in Photoshop if you want to. You need to Select/All and then go to Edit/Transform and use either perspective or skew or warp and pull out the edges. The buildings will straighten but you will lose some of the windows on the left. I think it looks fine as it is though. Always good to have a play as sometimes buildings need a bit of a straighten up.

[Babs]

I forgot to say, when you have finished you tick ok and then have to click select/deselect and re-crop your image.

[*lynn]

I have no advice...it's just cool to see these old castle walls!

[Gena Pegg]

The architecture is wonderful. Just don't see this in this country. Wonderful POV