Thank you, Stan, Alan and Trav. You have recognized the problem: standing on the floor while taking a pic of a subject high above inevitably leads to distortions (as long as you do not have an expensive tilt/shift lens--but who has?). Here, I was able to correct perspective in photoshop. This is not really so much work: Add an empty new layer and draw an unfilled circle on it, using the ellipse tool, dragging it while holding the shift key until it has the appropriate size. The only purpose of the circle is to serve as a guide. Then go to the original image layer and scale the width down until the shape of the window fits the circle. Of course, you cannot correct heavier distortions perfectly, but here, this method worked sufficiently well because I stood fairly far away from the window so the angle was not too steep. Gerald
Nice picture, fits the challenge well, I know what you mean about hitting it right on, have to be in the right position to take it, shot some in Washington DC and not as good as this, can study each picture within the window clearly. ~ StanP
This was much more difficult to do than it looks...you had to be in the upper galleries to be able to shoot the rose window flat on, yes? If shot from the ground, how did you correct distortion?
