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Toronto island - Pavel - Oct 10, 2008

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Toronto island - Irma - Oct 11, 2008

I like very much the place. I wish I were there. I love night reflections in the sea. They are pure magic!!

About your picture... the colors are beautiful, I love that green among all those warm colors, it looks to me that that is a place with great mood, but I feel very far from the place. I really can't get the message.

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Toronto island - NT73 - Oct 11, 2008

I feel it is in need of a little rotation. How to counter the parallax/lens effect I don't know, but everything else seems fine. The colour and reflections are pretty.

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Toronto island - enviroguy - Oct 11, 2008

The myriad of colours and their reflection in the water are great! The exposure reveals just enough of the building and the boats with the light not being too harsh. I'm glad someone else mentioned "the dreaded tilt".

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Toronto island - Pavel - Oct 18, 2008

Irma thank you. When you say you are far, are you saying that the photo needs foreground or is it a reference to my placing the building so close to the upper frame?

NT, I see what you are saying, but I have no idea how to fix it. I am a novice in this area, although I can fix very simple things in terms of distortions and perspective.

Oh, I got into trouble over the tilt with this one a lot! the problem is that the roof has a different angle that the water edge. If you please the roof people, you anoy the water edge people and I it is too difficult to spot for me to adjust the perspective.

Thank you all very much Pavel

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Toronto island - matthew - Oct 18, 2008

I have to agree that this image would be more effective if the distracting tilt was removed, so I've spent a few minutes with it. (Okay, more than a few, this one had me stumped for a bit.) My preferred tool is the Lens Correction filter under Photoshop's Distort set, and the settings I decided on was a -3 barrel correction, +5 vertical perspective, -6 horizontal perspective, and 1.5 degree rotation. It's not quite right, but it's close enough that perhaps a little more tweaking can get it there.

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Toronto island - Irma - Oct 18, 2008

My thought was about bring the scene more closer to the viewer framing just what the story was for you.

I have disadvantages by making this crop, one is that I was not there and somehow I am out of the story and the whole environment that involves this picture, but to me the story is concentrated in the structure of the builiding the line of boats and the reflections.

The horizon is well placed because let me know the source of the reflections and still I have the whole building in the background. About the tilted horizon I only rotated a bit, I think what fools a bit is the slanted pole that is too bright, but easy to clone out.

Here is my suggested framing of the scene. Hope you don't mind I cropped your picture.

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