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Trawling around for something to upload I stumbled upon this which I took last November. We lived in the East End for about ten years, so this is a bit of a trip down memory lane for me. I have a strange fondness for this part of London. The image was difficult to straighten as this sign is quite high up - also the top of the street sign isn't in line with the bottom of the plaster work.
Thanks for looking and for any comments/criticisms.
Ann
| Camera: | Canon EOS 60D |
| Lens: | SIGMA 17-70mm Macro |
| Recording media: | RAW (digital) |
| Title: | A sign of the times |
| Username: | 
AnnChown |
| Uploaded: | 15 Mar 2012 - 5:54 PM |
| Tags: | Architecture, East end, General, Landscape / travel, London |
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Hi Ann this is a nice image and definitely a sign of the times.
First my apologies if you already know what I am about to say....
If you are looking up or down at a subject or are using a wide angled lens you will come across convergence problems. You can overcome this in PS by using Image - Transform- then one of the listed options, Free Transform is worth having a play with as it can get you out of all types of problems. 
Trev
Quote: Hi Ann this is a nice image and definitely a sign of the times.
First my apologies if you already know what I am about to say....
If you are looking up or down at a subject or are using a wide angled lens you will come across convergence problems. You can overcome this in PS by using Image - Transform- then one of the listed options, Free Transform is worth having a play with as it can get you out of all types of problems.
Trev
Thanks Trev - I did fiddle with it in Lightroom to try to get it right. Not sure whether it's worked completely or not.. but thanks for letting me know about PS too.
Ann
This works VERY well Ann, and such great subject matter. A good 're' find 
John
I was going to mention straightening until I read your commentary There is a vertical straightening tool in Lightroom 3 that I have found endless use for in processing photos I took several years ago, before I was totally aware of perspective distortion. The tool is cool to distort further also!
Anne
Well spotted. A sign of the times but it also looks as though it's been there a while.
Dave
My mum came from Limehouse and later lived in Stepney. After an absence of a great many years I rediscovered Stepney quite recently and rather liked it - more interesting than Up West as my Granny used to say. The melting pot of all races and creeds and none.
This is getting me all nostalgic.
Regards
Bill
One of my favourite bits too. Layers of history, layers of paint and decay.
Moira
Brilliant shot Ann, well spotted and captured.
Hugh
Many would have missed it, you didn't good capture.
John
Love the different plates and cultures Ann. I always think when you go back that things seem so much smaller than when we were young, what seemed like a journey is only around a couple of corners.
Dougie
I thought this was Mumbai!
As for straightening, my church shot were simply done with the crop tool in PS. (c on the kepboard) in PS3 you can click on perspective and adjust the quirky angles.
Brilliant, love the title.
If you have Photoshop and have an image with converging lines that you want to correct, use filter/lens correction you can tilt the image forward and back or left and right then zoom in slightly to refill the frame.
You can also remove barreling caused by some wide angle lenses within the lens correction filter.
There is also a handy grid on it that you can use to see how straight the image is and finally if you wish you can add a vignette.
Andy
Free Transform in Photoshop would sort out the distortion, but I dont tgink that is as important as the social commentary in this shot.
"Coming to a street near you" comes to mind with this. Birmingham also has areas needing information presented in this way. In school we present many of our signs, such as Medical Room, Head Teacher's Room, Secretary, in several languages.
Helen
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