Squared Lines Don't Produce Squared Image by jyokota

Squared Lines Don't Produce Squared Image

Six and a half word story? But seriously, how can I be completely squared on two sides and yet have such angled lines on the other two?
Was it on a hill? If you have Lightroom you could try correcting the vertical and horizontal distortion. Nice old bricks :)
January 12th, 2016  
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.
January 12th, 2016  
@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 . . .
January 12th, 2016  
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 :)
January 12th, 2016  
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 :)
January 12th, 2016  
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!
January 12th, 2016  
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.
January 12th, 2016  
Because you aren't facing straight onto the building? Not perpendicular?
I like it though, even with the 'wonk' lines..it adds character.
January 12th, 2016  
You need to ask @vignouse he explains these things so well.
January 12th, 2016  
Great photo!
January 12th, 2016  
@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.
January 12th, 2016  
@vignouse Just trying to get a little more mentoring so I can avoid this problem myself as I too have experienced it.
January 12th, 2016  
@vignouse Many thanks for all that useful information to add to my knowledge.
January 12th, 2016  
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.
January 12th, 2016  
Good question!
January 13th, 2016  
Cool picture.
January 13th, 2016  
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