I don’t know whether this should be called a gazebo or a folly or what, but it sits on a hill overlooking one of the lakes in Roundhay Park in Leeds, and is a magnet for people walking and wandering around the park.
I can see it once served a function because it has water fountains around its base.
I shot the image as RAW and saved that one image twice in Photoshop as PSDs with two exposure settings.
Then I used the HDR function to produce this image.
The ground slopes steeply away behind where I was standing to take the shot, and I shot at an upward angle, so the edifice tapered towards the top. I corrected the vertical perspective with the Edit > Transform > Distort tool in Photoshop.
I prefer using the Distort tool rather than the Perspective tool because I can drag the shape around much more freely. I usually toggle the grid overlay on and off as I am working to check how the verticals and horizontals line up.
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It’s Barran’s Fountain
Thank you for the information – I’ve added a link to your website.
Very beautiful image there.
The technique is very handy
Every colonnade seems to hide some secrets inside!
Beautiful fountain …made me dream …
Let’s take a walk around
The perspective appears a little distorted though