Spring 2019
P h o t o g r a p h y
solutions e-zine
A William Manning Photography Publication
The Architectural Edition
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Thank you for taking time to view this special Architectural edition of Photography Solutions. For those who are not familiar with Photography Solutions, it is a free bi-monthly e-magazine published by William Manning Photography. Everyissue shares creative tips from behind the camera into the processing stage, travel locations and software ideas to help photographers create stunning images.
This publication was designed for architectural firms, construction contractors, REIT’s or any industry seeking solutions for their creative and marketing needs. The featured article for this issue is “How to Fix Perspective Issues in Your Photographs”. This is a common problem when you need to tilt your camera up or down to include something that would not have been included from a level camera position. The main body of this publication features several photographs from my Medical, Educational and Residential Portfolios. Each portfolio feature has a link that will take you to my website portfolio for a more indepth view of my work. The website has several additional portfolios not featured in this publication. I invite you to visit www.manningphotoworks. com. I would be delighted to help or guide you in getting the photography you need for marketing your work. To learn more about how I work with clients please click here. If you would like to receive future issues of Photography Solutions please email me at william@ williammanning.com and write “Put me on your mailing list”.
How to Fix Interior Views with Leaning Walls Written by William Manning Š Photography by William Manning When photographing interiors the perfect camera situation is to have the camera level at an exact height, making walls and furniture line up perpendicular. But as most experienced architectural photographers know, a level camera may not always highlight a special feature that a designer or architect might want to emphasize. In some cases it will likely show more ceiling than you want and take away from an otherwise beautiful angle. The photograph on the top right was created with the camera angled downward to purposely show more of the floor finish. The downside of this camera position is it creates leaning lines that are unflattering for a photograph that likely will be used for marketing purposes. I should mention there are special lenses for these purposes, tilt / shift lenses, but are expensive and for many photographers have limited uses. To fix leaning lines, or perspective distortions is fairly easy. There are two methods for correcting. One is in Adobe Camera Raw and the other is in Adobe Photoshop.
Correcting Perspective in Camera Raw Lets look at correcting perspective first in Adobe Camera Raw. 1.) Open your file in Adobe Photoshop. 2.) Highlight the background layer in the Layers palette and right click your mouse and convert file to Smart Object. Converting to Smart Object allows us to make adjustments to our photo while preserving the quality of the original file.
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3.) Open file into Camera Raw Filter from the Filter pull down menu found at the top of your Photoshop window. 4.) Once photo is opened in Camera Raw select the Transform tool in the top left hand corner. It is the 6th icon in the group as shown in the left middle illustration. 5.) On the right hand side of the Camera Raw window you will see several selections as shown on the left bottom illustration, automatic, level, vertical, full, and guides. Experiment with all of these and you’ll learn quickly what each will do. 6.) After making your corrections you may have to crop the image once you’re back into the normal Photoshop window.
Correcting Perspective with Skew Tool This method for correcting perspective is very easy. We’ll use the skew tool in Adobe Photoshop to fix the leaning walls. The camera position was purposely tilted upwards to show more ceiling and less floor. 1.) Duplicate background layer. Simply drag layer to layer icon as shown below.
2.) Highlight your duplicate background layer and then under the Edit dropdown menu located at the top left side of Photoshop’s menu bar and scroll down to Transform and select Skew from the Transform pullout menu. 3.) Press the “F” key on your keyboard this will open a Full Screen preview of your image. 4.) There will be a frame around the outside edges of the photo with tiny square boxes (handles).
Grab one of those handles with your curser and drag until you get to your desired position. 5.) Depending on how much correction is applied it is possible your photo may look distorted. If this happens simply change the Skew tool over to the the Scale tool and select the top or bottom of photo and drag handles until the photo looks correct.
Note: When I’m creating a photo on location and know I’ll be using the skew tool in the processing stage I will purposely shoot a little wider to make up for the distortion that I will likely encounter after using the Skew tool. Good luck and have fun in post processing.
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Sure, there are a lot of people who own cameras, that doesn’t make them a photographer. If your projects are important to you and your reputation, then trust your photography needs to a photographer who can show your clients how good you really are. William Manning Photography works throughout the eastern, southern and midwestern United States. Actually, I work anywhere across the U.S. web: www.manningphotoworks.com email: william@williammanning.com phone: 513543-5406