image quality - Photographic techniques to avoid chromatic aberration?

I've read several informations here on Photo SE, as well as the wikipedia article on CA.

I understand that it is inevitable that some amount of chromatic aberration shows up for a particular lens, especially on the extreme cases: high contrast of colors/luminosity, etc.

But I'd like to know if there is any
technique one can do to -minimize- this when some photo opportunity arises;

eg: if i'm visiting some place and want a picture of a building, for example. i can't go "meh, too contrasty, results won't be good."

• Would stop down the aperture help? I haven't tested it, but according to the causes of CA, it could help (bigger DoF, more things in focus, less specific color in different focus).


• Other than that, nothing comes to mind..

I already got a prime lens for the extra oomph of image quality, but i want more :)

please no "buy better gear" of "fix it in post" answers..
Obviously, i can fix stuff in post, AND I DO. But i'd like to make the most of my gear, and spend maybe a bit more time taking a picture, and less on lightroom.

Answer

I don't think these are quite the answers you want, since all of them involve changing the composition in some form, and these are probably already obvious to you, but:

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  Wait until a different time of day (like evening or early morning or nighttime) so there is less contrast between the building and the sky. Or wait until a cloudy day.

  
  


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  Move to a different position so there is less contrast between the subject and the background (for example, get above the building so the ground is the background, or move to the other side of the building so you have hills behind it instead of a bright sky).

  
  


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  CA is generally worst at the edges of the frame. Recompose your picture to put the object in the middle of the frame, and plan to crop the picture so anything at the corners with lots of CA won't be in the final picture.

  
  


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  I know you said you didn't want to hear this, but it might have the largest impact: some lenses handle CA better than others. Get a different (typically more expensive) lens.

  
  


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  Plan to downsize the image or print it small, so the CA is less visible (CA a couple pixels wide might not be visible on a 4x6" print but will be blindingly obvious on a 16x20" poster).