Try this: look at a wall in whatever room your in. Make sure that you can see the corners/joints at least at one end of the wall. Now tilt your head and look to the bottom of the wall at the floor. And finally tilt your head up and look at the top of the corner.
Next, take your camera with wide angle lens and do the same. Do you notice the difference? Probably not. But I can tell you theres a big one.
The verticals of the walls remain more or less vertical when you tilt your head. However, when you tilt your camera, notice that the verticals converge–that is, they bend in at the top or bottom, depending on the angle of the camera to the horizon.
This is called converging verticals, and it’s one of the first obvious signs of an amateur real estate or architectural photographer.
In most cases, I keep my real estate photos perfectly vertical in order to give the viewer a more natural perspective, one that their eyes would be more likely to see.
When I can’t do this due to a limitation of the surrounding landscape, I correct the perspective in photoshop (as in the example below). In the example before photo below, I was unable to get far back enough to get a straight vertical line on the property, and as such I was forced to correct in photoshop.
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2 Comments so far. Leave a comment below.i really enjoy reading all these blogs, very informative and very helpful!
Thanks Theresa.
It’s a rather new blog so there’s not much here, but I hope to add helpful marketing information for real estate professionals and developers in time. I’m also hoping to educate some of my current clients about some services I offer, etc.
Do feel free to comment or ask questions about anything here.