Unwanted Fisheye effect on all my photos

4 years 10 months ago #642952 by Ray Tevich
I'm shooting with my Canon Rebel T4i and have nearly 600 shots that have crappy fisheye effect  in them. I have tried everything I can think of to remove this effect.  What is happening is the outer sides of all the shots are leaning outwards.  

What can I do about this please?


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4 years 10 months ago #642953 by Ray Tevich
Sorry I was using a 18-55mm lens. 


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4 years 10 months ago #642970 by Shadowfixer1
That's probably not a fisheye effect. Without seeing an example image, I would say you are dealing with perspective distortion. If that is the case, you can use perspective correction in software to straighten it up. If it is actually a fish eye effect you can use "de-fish" in software to correct the image. Now the issue becomes does the software you use have these abilities. If you use Photoshop, the answer is yes. 
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4 years 10 months ago #642980 by garyrhook
Since you didn't tell us about your entire workflow, we can only offer suggestions. But +1 on what he said above.

If you use LR, it has very good profiles for most camera lenses, and handles perspective distortion readily.

I imagine other packages also have the ability to fix that, given the ubiquity of the "problem".


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4 years 10 months ago #642984 by Ray Tevich
I'm sorry, I didn't know what else you needed other than my camera and lens, which I mentioned already.  If you are talking about software I have Photoshop and Lightroom.  

I'll look in Lightroom as you suggested.

Now these photos are from one of my first paid jobs.  I don't think my client would like that I'm posting their photos in a public community.  Not to mention how bad this would look in the event that the client see's me asking about their photo.  

So what do people do in  these sort of situations where seeing comes in handy?  


BTW - thank you both! 


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4 years 10 months ago #643086 by garyrhook

Ray Tevich wrote: I'm sorry, I didn't know what else you needed other than my camera and lens, which I mentioned already.  If you are talking about software I have Photoshop and Lightroom.  

I'll look in Lightroom as you suggested.

Now these photos are from one of my first paid jobs.  I don't think my client would like that I'm posting their photos in a public community.  Not to mention how bad this would look in the event that the client see's me asking about their photo.  

So what do people do in  these sort of situations where seeing comes in handy?


From the bottom of your post:

You walk outside and take another photo using similar settings and subject geometry to illustrate the problem in a generic way, then post the photo.

I'm bothered by the idea that you have  paying client and are unfamiliar with these issues, which are fundamental to photography. Perhaps I'm assuming too much here, though, based on my interpretation of available information. But no, your client would expect you to already know what you're doing, me thinks. I could be wrong.

Nevertheless. Let's move on.

Good answers require good questions. Something like, "Using my Canon T4i with the kit 18-55 lens, I've captured images of <some object>. With a focal length of ##mm and a distance to subject of approximately # feet, I find the images exhibit a 'fisheye' effect, i.e. the subjects seem distorted. I'm using Lightroom v# to view the images, and I've processed them with settings for exposure/tone/whatever. But the subjects don't look 'normal' to me."

Did I capture that right?

Utilize the lens correction setting in LR and see where that takes you. Then let's talk about the actual settings you're using (focal length, primarily).


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