Theme: Window Reflecting Snow

[Anita Bower]

I took this photo a couple of years ago. A snowy cemetery is reflected in the windows of this old meetinghouse.
Basic adjustments, including Topaz Adjust >Clarity and Viveza.

[Michael Gerald-Yamasaki]

Anita,

Seasons Greetings! Interesting red-white-blue color contrast. I wonder what squaring up the window with a warp transform would look like. Thanks for posting.

Cheers,

-Michael-

[Anita Bower]

Anita,

Seasons Greetings! Interesting red-white-blue color contrast. I wonder what squaring up the window with a warp transform would look like. Thanks for posting.

Cheers,

-Michael-

I already squared up the window a lot. Will have another go at it. :-)

[Nancy Bell]

Very fascinating surreal reflection in an ordinary, old wooden-framed window. I like that the window is white and with peeling paint. Makes an intriguing image that lets the viewer put his own thoughts into it.

[Judy Howle]

I really like this Anita! The distorted reflections are very interesting and appealing. Well seen and processed.

[Anita Bower]

Thank you, Nancy and Judy.

[Cheryl Slechta]

Anita, the reflections are so interesting and change as I look at them. The middle panes started out looking like Mount Rushmore then skulls and the top ones look like tree branches. Nicely done.

[Jackie Schuknecht]

Very creative Anita. It makes you study the reflections very carefully. The window looks pretty square to me. Just wondering what makes the reflections brown rather than white. Was it the dark interior or glass?

[Anita Bower]

Thank you, Jackie and Cheryl.
Jackie: I don't know why the reflections are brown, maybe because I made them so in processing, which I did about a year ago. I'm free with changing colors. :-)

[Diane Miller]

Very nice! I love window reflections! You must have shot at an angle, to keep your own reflection out of the picture, and squared it up in PP.

The simplest correction strategy is to do the auto lens correction first (with any manual tweak for barrel or pincushion distortion if needed), before any cropping or other distortion, then go for the perspective distortion and straightening, and crop last. That will usually leave you with minimal oddities that might need something like Warp, for things that may be more part of an old building than from the lens.

[Dennis Bishop]

I have a thing for old buildings with character, and this one surely has it. The reflections are a bonus, and their brown and blue tones fit nicely with the age and color of the meetinghouse.

[Anita Bower]

Thank you Diane and Dennis. This is an old Quaker Meetinghouse in Lancaster County, PA.
Diane, I can't remember now the order in which I corrected the distortion.

[LinzRiverBalmer]

Very well seen, intriguing for sure.

[Anita Bower]

Thanks, Liz.