I decided to make the image look more normal, so I ran it through the Photoshop plug-in: Panorama Tools, and set it to unwarp the image. I also did a slight amount of fixing of the tilt. This is a great tool not just for panoramas, but other types of distortions, and it is free.

There is still some keystoning distortion which I didn't correct in the prior step (but I could have if I had wanted to do a bit of trial and error). So I applied some perspective correction to the image in Photoshop.

Here's the final image with some added cropping.

The image looks "normal". As far as I'm concerned this is all legitimate. I'm just correcting for image distortion. Before the digital era we used to do similar things by tilting the easel when making enlargements, but the warps were beyond our capabilities.

I sometimes prefer the original look, just because it is different, and sometimes I go for the conventional one. It's nice to be able to have the choice. I've go some other examples in the tips section of my web site, with more detailed explanations.

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