A thread for real estate, architectural, and interior design photography

ScottKCooper wrote in post #11860004
too much barrel distortion - I have a 14mm on a ff and he's right. I need a different lens, but whaddya-gonna-do?

Just keep in mind that a 14mm on a xxD is going to be a hair over 22mm effectively. So an 10-22mm will appear as 16-35mm FF equivelent.

4 shots vertical panoramic - it is not optimal because it was a casual set of shots - I mean if I was doing this for business I would have got more frames which would have allowed me to adjust the distortion better. Anyways I thought it was kind of a neat shot and wanted to share. This is the WIPRO secondary Headquarters in Bangalore India.

IMAGE LINK: http://www.flickr.com/​photos/delobbo/5453534​499/

srika wrote in post #11862260
4 shots vertical panoramic - it is not optimal because it was a casual set of shots - I mean if I was doing this for business I would have got more frames which would have allowed me to adjust the distortion better. Anyways I thought it was kind of a neat shot and wanted to share. This is the WIPRO secondary Headquarters in Bangalore India.


P1010527_HDRPanorama-2b900 by Rasidel Slika, on Flickr

Frank Lloyd Wright meets M.C. Escher. This is a cool shot sir!

srika, that's awesome.

When I see some of these images, I question what little I know about photography.

If this is straight out of camera, with the lens kit, I would think you need a shutter speed that would have blurred everyone walking around. If not a long exposure, it surely would need an ISO that would have shown some noise.

Do you mind me asking your settings?

lostpacket wrote in post #11852542
no pp, straight out of the camera. and the kit lens to boot.

IMAGE LINK: http://www.flickr.com/​photos/lostpacket/5243​212584/
Siam Paragon

ScottKCooper wrote in post #11860004
too much barrel distortion - I have a 14mm on a ff and he's right. I need a different lens, but whaddya-gonna-do?

I mean, a 14mm lens doesn't by it's very nature give you barrel distortion, but a poorly designed 14mm does. If you had a 14mm that was well corrected, would you still feel that way?

apixelintime wrote in post #11862279
Frank Lloyd Wright meets M.C. Escher. This is a cool shot sir!

mikekelley wrote in post #11862290
srika, that's awesome.

glad to hear from both of you - thanks!

fnothaft wrote in post #11863484
I mean, a 14mm lens doesn't by it's very nature give you barrel distortion, but a poorly designed 14mm does. If you had a 14mm that was well corrected, would you still feel that way?

it exaggerates perspective, plain and simple - it makes things look bigger than they are. RE photography isn't about fitting EVERYTHING in the scene, it's about showing the house in the best possible light and showing the 'feel' for the house as if you were there. some angles do this better than others - a 14mm will make it look cavernous. 16mm on FF is as wide as I'd ever go, and only then in dire circumstances. the 17ts is my lens of choice, but I use it on a 1d3, and I still find myself cropping extra stuff out.

mikekelley wrote in post #11864009
it exaggerates perspective, plain and simple - it makes things look bigger than they are. RE photography isn't about fitting EVERYTHING in the scene, it's about showing the house in the best possible light and showing the 'feel' for the house as if you were there. some angles do this better than others - a 14mm will make it look cavernous. 16mm on FF is as wide as I'd ever go, and only then in dire circumstances. the 17ts is my lens of choice, but I use it on a 1d3, and I still find myself cropping extra stuff out.

Interesting to know. I own a 14mm... but I'm on a 1.6x crop. Kind of hard to imagine 14mm on FF.

14mm is perfect on 1.6

mikekelley wrote in post #11865348
14mm is perfect on 1.6

Yeah, it's definitely pretty nice. I can't really imagine having a strong desire for anything much wider. It'd possibly be useful for the rare scene, but, note the word rare there. I think my dream rig would be to upgrade to FF and to move to the TS-E 24 II and 45, and to keep the 135L. All else goes.

I just received my samyang 14mm today and wanted to do a quick test in my house for distortion its taken with the mk4 (1.3) seems like a quick fix in photoshop.

HOSTED PHOTO
please log in to view hosted photos in full size.

HOSTED PHOTO
please log in to view hosted photos in full size.

TheReal7 wrote in post #11850529
What happened to my post about bracketing shots?

LOL LOL LOL

A picture of the Grove Arcade in Asheville, taken just after eating lunch. Learning a lot from this thread, thanks to everyone who contributes: 5dII, 50mm 1.8II @ f11, 1/125

What are the rest of you guys using to correct barrel distortion?

It is usually very mild with my lens, but when I do have some obvious distortion I use Lens Correction. Just curious who using DPP, or LR, or PS, and what your process looks like.