


While this technique brings the perspective to a normal view, it also has the effect of shortening the buildings.

As I do so, the left corner moves out as well, correcting the tilting perspective. Next, select the upper right corner handle and click and hold down, then hold down Command-Option-Shift (Control-Alt-Shift) and drag the handle to the right.
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With the Move tool selected, I choose Free Transform (Command/PC: Control-T). Note that they tend to be leaning in as if Singapore isn’t built on a firm foundation (which it isn’t).įor purposes of the tutorial, I’ve sent the image to its own new layer (Command/PC: Control-J) and unlocked it. Even from a distance, the downtown buildings were so tall that I had to tilt the lens up to get them all in the image. Here’s a shot of Singapore’s skyline from Boat Quay. Here’s a simple fix in Photoshop for that problem (it also works for distorted perspective when the lens is pointed down). Point a wide angle up at a tall building and the building will seem to fall away in altered perspective. With the Macro mode turned on permanently, I find this is a setup that is ready for virtually any subject, except wildlife.īut wide angles do present some problems with image distortion. Now, as a digital photojournalist, my wide angle attachment stays on my camera about 80 percent of the time, effectively cutting my zoom range to 24-85mm (approximately 35mm equivalent). As a photojournalist, I’ve always been partial to my “normal” lens: the wide angle.
