Pier Wisconsin/ Discovery World Museum

[neonfish3]

This is a new museum in Milwaukee, just opened last fall. It features a Great Lakes maritime museum and hands on childrens discovery museum. I dont do a lot of architecture but I thought this one came out well.

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What do you think?

[RexK_Cozumel]

It is a pretty well done photo but a couple things could make it better. First the horizen is not straight. Seems like there is a bit of lens distortion as the horizen on the right seems to curve up a little. Also there is no balance to this photo. The building on the left really fills the frame but there is nothing to balance it out on the right. Perhaps it would have been a better architecture photo if it was more building and less water.

[neonfish3]

Thanks for your reply. I did try to straiten the horizon but the whole building went crooked.
What if I cropped it to a square and cut out the water?

[RexK_Cozumel]

What program are you using to process your photos? I know that in photoshop there is tools to fix lens distortion. I think the square crop in this image would be a lot better cutting out some of the dead space on the right to really bring emphasis on the building. But leave just enough of the water there to let people know that it is on the water front.

[neonfish3]

I use Photoshop CS2. I tried to fix it with the perspective distortion filter and it helped the horizon but bent the uprights on the building.
Here's a more square crop.

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Better?

[RexK_Cozumel]

I feel that the cropped image is a much stronger architecture photo only thing I would do is perhaps crop a tiny bit off the bottom so that the railing on the bottom right corner is uniform or just clone that part out if you dont want to crop.

[FrankenPengie]

Knock off that little chunk at the bottom and it'll be spiffy. While you're there you might consider tightening the right. Chop to where there are no clouds maybe. I think it might could handle rotating to the left a notch too, but it looks good.