Lens distortion always irks me, and I always correct them in post process. I like my photos to have straight paralel vertical lines too.Was this taken maybe with something with a big film like a medium format? I assume this should be taken with a lens that has a long focal length...but then it doesnt make sense for indoors.
>>4538272tlit sifht
>>4538274I see. I thought those were only useful for making miniature like shots. Thanks!So thats how these kinds of photos were made.
>>4538276It's called perspective control. On large format your front standard controls the focal plane and the back controls perspective.
>>4538274I guess I need to invest in one then.
>>4538277I only realize now why large formats use those bellows.
as the other guy said you need a tilt lens for architecture photography.looks like large format, so it is a long focal length in 35mm but it's got a wide FOV in large format.
>>4538276That's the tilt part, you tilt the focal plane so more or less is in focus, with less giving that miniature effectThis is the shift part, which you can also essentially do in post with keystoning, at the cost of resolution
>>4538286Post keystoning also leaves in weird UWA distortions that wouldn't exist with a physical adjustment
>>4538286And by cost of resolution, I also mean field of view in practice
>>4538287Is there an article or example I could see of this?
>>4538289Just look at /p/ users who keystone in post lo
>>4538292>I do not have an example or source at allYou can just say that next time
Aside from the change in focus, correcting the distortion in software is actually no different than using a tilt shift lens.
>>4538304Correcting for distortion in software is more like tilting the lens of an enlarger than doing so in-camera, because you're stretching parts of an already captured image and its imperfections with it.
>>4538304Correcting for distortions optically doesn't destroy the image in quite the same way as correcting for them digitally.
>>4538310What distortion are you talking about?>>4538314True, but good thing it's close enough for most cases to not make a difference
Quite surprised that nobody has mentioned rectilinear lenses yet - which are specifically designed to prevent distortion and deliver straight lines...
>>4538354They still have perspective distortion (corners not straight)
>>4538354Pretty much all lenses aside from fisheyes are (aiming to be) rectilinear, it's the default projection in photography. It's only mentioned explicitly for ultrawides to tell them apart from fisheyes.Rectilinear perspective still only makes parallel lines appear as such if the sensor plane is parallel to them too, hence lense shifting.
>>4538286jst get the lens you need and dont tak shitty photos in a hurry
>>4538384>hens lens shiftingFtfy
>>4538286>https://exposure.software/blog/2019/perspective-correction-with-transform-tools/The center is straight, but the edges are leaning outwards in this and the building looks extremely unnatural because straightening the lines did not actually correct perspective, it just straightened the lines while keeping everything visible that was with the original perspectiveInstead of looking like a building constructed in a straight up in down fashion like it really is and appears to be in the original, it now appears to be a modern art project
>>4538296Literally here retard >>4538286Straightening lines in post does not correct perspectiveIt never hasit never willit is literally impossible to do without generative AIYou do actually need a perspective control lens to take this kind of photoEditing can not fix composition, you need to place the camera in the correct spot to begin with (or all your photos look like iPhone)Editing can not fix perspective, you need to have an image with the correct perspective projected onto the sensor Editing can not fix aliasing, you need to use a lens that diffuses detail when it's an issueEditing can not fix colors, you need to use a lens with good color rendition and a sensor that discriminates between hues and shades betterEditing can not fix sharpness, you need an actual sharp image to start with-or all your photos look like iphoneBelieving otherwise is what leads to believing digital photography is inherently bad looking, what makes all your photos look like iPhone
>>4538411Editing cant fix lighting eitherAdding +7 magenta tint to a modern mirrorless shooting under cheap shit LEDs doesnt fix how light and color actually works. Masks and gradients cant add light sources and shadows that were never there. White balance cant actually change the color of a light source. Post is fake and gay and only exists because cameras processors are too weak and their screens too inaccurate to interpret sensor data correctly, not to avoid getting it right in camera. The standard for high end digital photography is a hasselblad or phaseone MFDB shooting raw tethered to a laptop running phocus or capture one.
>>4538411>>Straightening lines in post does not correct perspective>It never has>it never will>it is literally impossible to do without generative AIYeah but that has nothing to do with our discussion because "perspective control" lenses do not meaningfully change your perspective (i.e. the physical location of your camera in the scene). What they do change is the projection, and that can absolutely be accurately corrected for, just like a fisheye image can be accurately remapped to rectilinear. The geometry is 100% sound whether you're using editing software or a perspective-control enlarger.What post-processing options can't emulate, however, is the tilt-shift lens's ability to keep the focus plane matched to your subject. Editing also inherently cause artifacts from the stretching it does (uneven softness, bokeh, noise/grain, etc.).
Tilt-shift confuses me, but I do have an Olympus somewhere in my hoard I ought to fiddle with.
>>4538411>I have no examples or sources just more ramblingSad
>>4538410To the extent this is true, the verticals in OP are also not uniformly straight eitherTry to think more about what the shift is doing to the projected image, and you might level up your knowledge base
>>4538419>Post is fake and gay and only exists because cameras processors are too weak and their screens too inaccurate to interpret sensor data correctly, not to avoid getting it right in camera. The standard for high end digital photography is a hasselblad or phaseone MFDB shooting raw tethered to a laptop running phocus or capture one.Anon, post exists before digital cameras. Digital post is as old as commercially available digital cameras, 1989.Before Blackmagic Design, there was Cintel. And Cintel made the original Ursa, a telecine machine that kickstarted the digital intermediate craze. The first DSLR came in 1991.
