The Wrong Perspective!

Have you ever experienced a time when you just couldn’t deal with someone? You couldn’t come up with any reasonable explanation or solution for what was happening. Then someone tells you to think in a different way. “Look at it from his perspective,” they say to you.

When we photograph tall object, like buildings, we can run into a similar situation. It looks right to us when we look at it with our eyes, but when we photograph it, we get the wrong perspective. The buildings look wrong.

Thankfully, there is a solution for this problem in Photoshop. You can transform a distorted building with Perspective.  

If you have never used the Transform commands (on the Edit tab) then it might be helpful to check out this video from Adobe. This is just a general overview of the transform options, but it will give you lots of ideas.

http://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/using/transforming-objects.html.  

Looking at some images taken last week of very tall buildings, you can see that they look distorted. It is easy to manipulate them just enough to get the right perspective for our human eyes.

So, go find something really tall and take shots of it that make it look distorted. Then go into Photoshop, create a new layer, and play with the new layer using Edit/Transform/Perspective and see what you create.