Forum: Photography


Subject: About so-called wideangle distortion

Elcet opened this issue on Feb 15, 2008 ยท 12 posts


thundering1 posted Sat, 16 February 2008 at 8:57 PM

Just gotta say, I LOVED it when wedding photos came through the lab looking like that ;-)

Grandma looking like Mr. Fantastic - they were fabulous! And the "I just bought an expensive camera and now I'm a pro shooting weddings" photographer was convinced we had no idea what we were doing back there in the lab and we should all be fired!

Aaaaaahhhh - the good old days were in fact frustrating as Hell... I don't miss them...

Actually, if you want to minimize the bending of the view, try shooting with your 10-20mm zoom pointed forward as level as possible - lines will actually be pretty straight up and down with minimal bowing. And when you bring it into Photoshop you can even correct THAT.

Just did a quickie tinker to see if I could "unbend" it - but I completely lost the kid at the bottom in red, and the bottom right dragon head. Eh - just playing with it.

-Lew ;-)