I shoot some for both real estate agents and home builders. I shoot with mostly the 16-35. Some of the image pull I don't mind. There is also alot of pull at the bottom corners I'm trying to get rid of. I'd like to get your opinion on how to eliminate the "corner pull". In the attached photo, it's the pull of the counter top/stove top that bothers me. Disregard the flash showing in the picture. I did put the photo through Photo Fix Lens 2.1 for vertical and horizontal corrections.
The kind of fixes that I can think of would be to either raise the camera and not be so near the counter tops. Or pull back and shoot with a longer lens like a 50mm. Or use the 24mm tilt shift if that would eliminate the pull that I get when I have lets say a chair or counter top that is pretty close to the lens in the foreground.
drag a couple of guide lines out and use edit, transform, distort to square all your line up.
So here is one of my images where no distort in photoshop is going to correct. Is shooting with a 24mm tilt shift or longer lens going to help eliminate the pull.
I just don't want everything to be looking like its going down hill on the edges.
T&S lenses are largely used to correct converging verticals. Why not rent one for a weekend to experiment? Try lensrentals.com.
A TS lens wont correct the horizontal pull as it only corrects in one direction at a time. Some can be rotated to correct either vertical or horizontal (or even diagonal) but the wide angle would still cause distortion in the plane not being corrected.
So how would you correct for both the horizontal and vertical lines. When I correct for vertical is ps, it distorts the horizontal and vise versa.
As I said, if you shoot using One Point Perspective the horizontals perpendicular to the camera, will always be horizontal.
If you use a 2 point perspective with weird angles, all the horizontals will be not horizontal. You can't correct this in post production, this is geometry and composition.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROlHybuf7cs
One point perspective could help mostly because there will be some horizontals that right now you don't have.
Back up and zoom in. You want to shoot with the longest possible focal length to eliminate the distortion.
On interiors that is impossible most of the time. But is a solution for open exteriors
I wouldn't say that's the case. I shoot interiors exclusively and shoot almost everything between 24-35mm.
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You have a great portfolio that Larry could see and look for some answers.
I started out in real-estate photography using a 14-24mm lens, but the distortion at wider angles always bothered me, especially in kitchens, such as the one you showed. Microwave ovens always looked like they were about a meter wide. Yes, I could correct some of it in Lightroom or Photoshop, but it never looked right. After about a year, I switched to a 24mm tilt-shift lens. There can still be distortion in tight places, of course, but it's much less of a glaring problem. Plus, now, I get the advantages of being able to shift the lens up and down (or side to side) to improve composition. That's especially handy, of course, when you're backed into a corner of a room or against a narrow hallway wall.
Though both forms of photography occur, ostensibly, in the same place, real estate and architecture photography are vastly different beasts.
With RE work you almost always must show as much space as possible. I've yet to meet an agent that cared if the there was perspective distortion, yard long micro wave ovens, but does care that I make everything look as big and roomy as possible.
In architecture the whole point is to show the design. Space and other elements can be expressed implicitly so one does not need to show every possible square inch.
All this to say that when you use a short focal length lens there is going to be perspective distortion. Just as with the eye if you put something very close to you face it is going to look enormous and distorted in comparison to things further away. For some applications that is okay. But when using a longer focal length whenever possible makes things appear more "natural".
For real estate work I've made peace with the 14-24 "look" and learned to move things around to try and minimize that effect. Rarely will I use anything less that 28mm when I'm shooting architecture and PC lenses are 95% of the time almost a must.
Put another way... just think of the huge turkey you can cook in that yard long microwave! :-D