Advice using Wide Angle Lens

[Stuart Mc]

Just started using a 10-20mm wide angle lens for landscapes and one thing I've noticed straight away is the amount of distortion. Most of this is correctable in post however I've got two questions:

1. Is there a fool proof way of getting rid of moustache distortion (is this the right terminology?)
2. Should you use adaptive wide angle filter in Photoshop in all processing of wide angle shots or is it just a matter of taste? I posted some images in Rural and Scenic of Great Gable earlier where 2 and 3 didn't have any alterations made in adaptive wide filter but the first one did. (if someone can show me how to link a thread on here that would be great BTW)

Just a bit worried that images such as the last one of the lake look 'wrong'

 

[Carl Hall]

You can just copy and paste the link to the thread like this https://www.talkphotography.co.uk/threads/great-gable.620769/ and then the forum will make it a hyperlink. Or, in this instance you could quote your original post, and then paste that here like this

After seeing MattyW's excellent image from Scoat Fell I thought I'd post up what I came back with from Wasdale in similar conditions. I went there with the sole purpose of taking shots of Great Gable which anyone who's visited the area is a magnificent mountain. The last one I couldn't resist the cliche shot of Wastwater

Great Gable by Stuart McGlennon, on Flickr
Great Gable by Stuart McGlennon, on Flickr
Stormy Wastwater by Stuart McGlennon, on Flickr

I can't help with the distortion question, but I do think that the photos you've posted don't look overly distorted to my untrained eye. I think they're superb.

 

[Scirocco_09]

No distortion problems but I've left feedback about your editing, this is where they look 'wrong' for my eyes

 

[chris malcolm]

I'm surprised you notice the slight mustache distortion of this lens in landscapes. It's more obvious in architectural and cityscape photography, where there are many long straight lines. You may be confusing that non-linear distortion with the simple natural perspective oddities of even a perfect rectilinear wide angle lens, which are often exaggerated by careless use. Small tilts away from a precisely horizontal angle of view have much more dramatic effects on the perspective of wide angle lenses. You can correct that with a perspective correction tool, but first you must correct the lens geometry distortions or the perspective adjustment will make them worse.

To correct lens geometry distortions you need an editor or tool which has a comprehensive database of the geoemtry distortions of nearly all lenses. PTLens is one such tool.

 

[Stuart Mc]

I'm surprised you notice the slight mustache distortion of this lens in landscapes. It's more obvious in architectural and cityscape photography, where there are many long straight lines. You may be confusing that non-linear distortion with the simple natural perspective oddities of even a perfect rectilinear wide angle lens, which are often exaggerated by careless use. Small tilts away from a precisely horizontal angle of view have much more dramatic effects on the perspective of wide angle lenses. You can correct that with a perspective correction tool, but first you must correct the lens geometry distortions or the perspective adjustment will make them worse.

To correct lens geometry distortions you need an editor or tool which has a comprehensive database of the geoemtry distortions of nearly all lenses. PTLens is one such tool.

Thanks, the reason i mentioned mustache distortion as the sea horizon on some I took the other day definitely had a slight wavy effect to them in the middle of the image even when using a tripod. If I've got this confused another type no probs but it certainly needed to be sorted in post as it didn't look natural at all. I'll have a look at that PTLens tool, I take it this is more comprehensive than the built in tool in PS?