Reasons for a nature/landscape photographer to buy Viewpoint?

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I’m just wondering if there are any ‘killer’ features for those of us not architectural shots. I’ve downloaded/installed the trial version, but I’m wondering if it adds anything ‘interesting’ to the other sections of PL(?)

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It is not only the architecture that can benefit from ViewPoint, all landscapes with buildings, portraits with volume deformation correction …

A complete tour of the possibilities and settings: http://tuto.dxo.free.fr/EN/ViewPoint/ViewPoint.html

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Thanks!
I can see how it’d help portraits done too close (although I think we’re all going to come out of this nCov19 thing with a different sense of ‘personal distance’ - so that may be less of an issue in the future).
Guess I’ll bang on the demo for a while, see if there’s anything there I need. I haven’t found anything in the other PL sections.

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Make converging trees parallel?

Addendum: I wrote this more as a joke than as a serious question. DPL has tools to force parallels and rectangles, there is no need to get Viewpoint for these functions. VP brings in the four line tool (8-point tool) which I love and the tilt/shift tool (miniature effect tool) which I can gladly live without. Whether you want volume anamorphosis applied to a landscape depends on how wide you shoot and whether you can live with stretched edges or not.

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Yes, but not only. I often take pictures in the forest where, generally, there is no horizon. So sometimes I’m not sure if a given tree is really so wrong (crooked) or not. ViewPoint helps me straighten if I have to.

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You can use perspective corrections to make a foreground object “loom” larger. Like the rocks in this shot.

Straight

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Corrected

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Joanna - this is clever. Never thought about that. Thank you!

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No problem. That’s what comes from learning how to use tilt and shift on a large format camera (see my avatar) :sunglasses:

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Ditto, Sigi - - That is clever !

Joanna - Did you simply click on the Perspective activation button to achieve that (thereby applying the “magic wand”) ?

John

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… only the Up / Down tilt correction.
I use it everydays :slight_smile:
Pascal

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