I have been bothered by the look of how my wonderful UWA lenses warp reality. I currently have a 14LII and just got the new TS-E17 f/4 L. I've known since day one that when composing your shot, you have to keep it level in both the X and Y axis' and ideally also in the Z axis to keep all the lines as straight and level as possible. Even with doing all of that correctly, the images still come looking less then natural because the vanishing points are not right! Especially when shooting interior real estate and architectural type shots. So I starting playing with the images and realized that if I could fix the vanishing point, it would probably go a long way toward making the picture look closer to reality, but there in lies the problem! There's no vanishing point correction that can be applied to an entire image in one step, but I discovered that if you divide the picture in half and apply a perspective change to each half separately and then piece them back together, you can actually end up making the picture look a lot more natural...or at least more natural to me. An additional step of also stretching out each corrected half is necessary to keep the proportioning natural.
Below is an example of a shot taken with my 14LII on tripod, leveled in the X and Y plains.
You notice that all the vertical lines are nice and straight and that the lens is taking in a huge amount of area but because of the weird vanishing point, it doesn't look natural.
Below is the same shot , processed as I described above with my method of dividing, correcting and reassembling.
You'll notice that the image is now much wider but that's because the dimensions of the room are now more realistically conveyed.
I realize that it's a lot more post processing to do just to fix this issue but thought I'd share this idea for those that also bothered by this issue and were wanting a way of dealing with it.
Also, what I'd really like to see happen here for others to try this and post their results! Or if you have other methods of how you fix this type of issue, I'd love to hear about them!
Cheers!
