Correcting Barrel Distortion of Wide & Ultrawide Lenses
I love to shoot with wide and ultra-wide lenses. And I just love the Canon 15mm Fish Eye lens that I have. Its an amazing tool to stretch your photographic creativity. The barrelling and the huge depth of field of the fish eye lens often produce images which stand out from the rest.
This picture of the Petronas Twin Towers in Kuala Lumpur, the Tallest TWIN Towers in the world, is one of my favourite pictures shot with the Canon Fisheye.
There is an obvious convergence of the tops of the twin towers which is a characteristic of wide angle lenses. This “barrelling” effect is akin to the volksvagen car - you either love it or you hate it. But I’m sure you’ll agree that it is slightly “different” Twin Towers picture from the zillions of pictures which zillions of tourists have probably shot of this famous building.
When I posted this picture in POTY last year when POTY was DL (Digital Life), most people commented that I should debarrel the picture. Of course I didn’t debarrel it ! I wanted it to look like that. And I kinda liked it this way.
But lets say I did want to debarrel and remove the pin-cushion effect of a wide angle lens. How would I do it? …. see full article.
