Piano

[Trevor Ash]

Hi Seb.

I'd have to edge on the "isn't always necessary to correct distortion" side of the fence. Architecture is one thing, but for faces (or most anything circular or otherwise "familiar") it is a distraction. Also, as your photo shows, distortion isn't even from the center to the edges. You could spend hours trying to get things right and still have some items that are off. Using your photo, it seems obvious you corrected based on the nearer door frame. But look at the visible distortion in the distant door frame.

I speak of this because in my time with digital panoramic photography I learned just how nasty this stuff gets.

Put down the photoshop tools and just accept the lens for the qualities it has Don't think of distortion or curvature as a flaw.

Good photo otherwise, I enjoy the playful nature of it!

[Seb]

Hi Seb.

I'd have to edge on the "isn't always necessary to correct distortion" side of the fence. Architecture is one thing, but for faces (or most anything circular or otherwise "familiar") it is a distraction.

Put down the photoshop tools and just accept the lens for the qualities it has.

Good photo otherwise, I enjoy the playful nature of it!

Well that's the Nikkor 12-24 (a good one in theory) but it was shot at 12mm so I wasn't "helping myself" so to speak!

As I am experimenting with indoor people photography, my appreciation for well executed pictures of this type is rising dramatically. Maybe it's just me but a nice landscape seems awfully easy in comparison nowaday. Anyway, enough rambling...

thanks for commenting!

Seb