Keystoning is correcting converging verticals

[SFTPhotography]

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I popped this on a post where QC mentioned keystoning: I thought some illustrations of what to do in camera and using shift movements might help

There is a lot of talk about keystoning. You can correct in CO or LR/PS at the expensive of quite a lot of resolution being lost. You also need to allow room to the side of the subject to lose doing a keystone/perspective correction. This can be a bit of guess work.

Quality starts in camera. Managing your position and keeping your camera level...

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[Norkie]

Sometimes called the Tombstone effect

 

[kendo1]

Well presented, Steve.

 

[G.K.Jnr.]

"Excellent" presentation Steve.

George.

 

[Minch]

Great read. I always come across this when shooting in a wood. In the eagerness to capture as much of the tress as possible there's a tendency to angle the camera upwards. This then gives you look that they are all falling in on one another.

 

[SFTPhotography]

Great read. I always come across this when shooting in a wood. In the eagerness to capture as much of the tress as possible there's a tendency to angle the camera upwards. This then gives you look that they are all falling in on one another.

There is. Using a PCE lens or even shooting portrait keeping the camera level on both planes will minimize this.

 

[Minch]

Never thought to spin and go portrait. It seems obvious now!

 

[SFTPhotography]

Never thought to spin and go portrait. It seems obvious now!

Gives you a lot more options in terms of height and keeping everything level whilst fitting in what you wish to fit in. You can then stitch your portrait level images together if you want a panoramic/3:2 view too.

 

[cmcm789]

Had never thought about keeping the camera level and cropping before. Thanks for the write-up, will definitely give it a go from now on.

 

[Terrywoodenpic]

Nice set of examples.
A rather cheaper option is to do a verticle stitch. And as you are adding a large number of pixes by adding images, you lose little if any quality compared to a shift lens.
But the identical stretching of the image can occur, if the viewpoint is too close, but can be corrected in some projections.

 

[NeilA1975]

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Brilliant Steve. I'm a little undisciplined when it comes to this subject, usually due to arriving at a location late where my workflow goes out of the window and I start to cut corners.
Cheers again.

 

[Wee man]

Some Olympus cameras have this in body.

 

[Leroy4bz]

Nice resource, with easy to understand examples. Thank for posting.