Old Town - Victorians

[Chris Dodkin]

San Diego's Old Town has a nice collection of restored Victorian buildings, moved to this location to preserve them.

It's amazing to me to see the level of detail in these buildings, and the bright, but historically correct, paint schemes they used to have back in the day.

Here are a couple of shots from Sunday's visit - will probably go back for another go with more dramatic lighting later on...

Canon 5D2 and 28-70 f2.8L

 

[Darren Bradley]

A familiar spot, but very well shot. Did you correct the perspectives in PP?

 

[Chris Dodkin]

#1 I kept the camera level and cropped the excess top and bottom

#2 I climbed the steps of a house to be able to shoot with a level camera

#3 I corrected in PS using the perspective correction tool

 

[Pete Askew]

What an interesting location. I guess it's overrun by tourists in the season though isn't it (is there a season)? I tend to use transform / distort rather than perspective correction as I find it easier to control non-symetrical 'errors' that way.

 

[Chris Dodkin]

Pete, definitely a vacation destination -so the usual summer rush of tourists.

Sunday wasn't bad at all, although the bars were full early with folks on spring break! LOL