Lens distortion ?

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What do you think is going on here with the buildings falling away to the right and falling away to the left ?

http://www.flickr.com/photos/restorecalm/7631158680/
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Without exif data. I would say you did not have the camera level. As nothing seemes to be vertical.
 
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vetonbike said:
Without exif data. I would say you did not have the camera level. As nothing seemes to be vertical.
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That's what happens when the camera back isn't vertical.

It's physics I'm afraid, you can shoot wider with the camera level, or from a higher viewpoint, use a tilt/shift lens, correct in photoshop or be happy with the photo you got.
 
Thank you so much. I took quite a few pics like this in Liverpool and they all looked the same way. Photoshop next stop then. Thanks again.
P.S. Sorry there was no exif data, my fault I didn't change the settings in LR.
 
The camera is level by the looks of it with the far horizon, all the uprights apart from the buildings immediately on the right and left of the lens lean out slightly, the left hand building to the left, the right hand building to the right.

without seeing exif we can see what lens you where using but this is a well known phenomenon when shooting with wide angle lenses, this is why some use tilt shift lenses to counter act this happening.
 
Perspective distortion is to do with the attitude of the camera, in this case it was pointing upward. It is very easily corrected in photoshop.
Or far cheaper in PTLens. (which will correct real lens distortion at the same time.)
http://epaperpress.com/ptlens/
 
iancandler said:
The camera is level by the looks of it with the far horizon, all the uprights apart from the buildings immediately on the right and left of the lens lean out slightly, the left hand building to the left, the right hand building to the right.

without seeing exif we can see what lens you where using but this is a well known phenomenon when shooting with wide angle lenses, this is why some use tilt shift lenses to counter act this happening.
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There's level, and there's level;)

The camera isn't level front to back, so the film plane isn't vertical.
 
Camera is rotated slightly clockwise, but it looks worse because the building on the right tapers out towards the bottom.
 
To be fair, all I can see if an unlevel camera with a bit of perspective that make the building look a bit skewed
 
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