I can see your problem & sometimes have the same one myself......how does that happen? Definitely must be on a hill? Looks a warm interesting building.
@paulaw@happypat -- this was on a very flat street, not a hill! Yes, the old bricks are nice and that's what caught my eye. Ok, MUST get into using LR for correcting distortions . . .
Believe me it's very easy if I can manage it. You can find it on the left hand side close to the bottom under Lens Corrections. Literally a case of sliding a slider and it works a treat :)
I always have that problem when taking pictures of buildings. I still have to learn the trick to get them straight and nice. The bricks are beautiful tho! And you still did a great job especially with the guy and his shadow :)
That drives me crazy too. One of the books I checked out of the library indicated this is especially problematic when the camera is tilted up to include all (or more) of a building and suggested making sure the vertical plane of the camera is aligned straightup and down. I hope I'm not misrepresenting what I read. I know that with my old camera almost every straight vertical, large or small, suffered from this distortion. Maddening!
I had that problem in most of the photos I took walking around Chicago! Trying to figure out how to save a crooked building is a work in itself. But I do love the brickwork and shadows that drew your eye to this one.
@jyokota Hi Junko, as @joansmor put me on the spot, here's my take on your 'problem', which we all suffer from on occasions: there are three ways to hold your camera incorrectly and thus skew the perspective in the image. Not holding the camera level in an east-west sense; tipping the focal plan up or down; not having the focal plane at 90 degrees to the subject. All of these produce perspective distortion with a singular particularity... you only notice it after you have uploaded the image to your computer! Looking closely at your image, I suspect that all three of these factors have come together to confound you! (You can, of course, also have frame-edge distortion with extreme wide-angle lenses, but that shouldn't be the case with the 35mm you used here.) The image still works for me... I particularly like the shadow play.
The skewed lines don't bother me a jot Junko, just part of the terrain. I like this city shot which makes me wonder where the man is going, and why those windows were bricked up.
I like it though, even with the 'wonk' lines..it adds character.