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Everyone comes across them when the camera's slightly inclined when taking the shot.


Generally you either shoot with no incline and crop the bottom if required or allow for it and shoot wider that required to give yourself 'space' in photoshop to distort and fix.


I don't know what to do here though?




Plenty of skyscrapers that are 250-300m tall:

Excuse my ignorance, but I don't understand the term "converging verticals"!

Just a beginner question! Nice shot, I can't see what's wrong with it though. Surely even if the buildings were taller, the camera wouldn't portray them as joined at the top?

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I was being 'ironic', Mitchell86

When shooting, and it's particularly with a wide angle lens, if the camera isn't exactly parrallel with the ground and with the horizon through the middle of the image, then anything with height will lean. More so towards the edges of the frame.

So your options with the shot are:

a - To take a shot with the camera parallel to the ground and crop off the bottom of the image, maintaining vertical verticals.

b - To take a shot to fit everything in, keeping the leaning buildings and then to distort and warp the image in photoshop. You'll have to shoot wider that you at first anticipate to allow 'space' to distort the image and maintain the composition you're after.

c - Keep the leaning buildings as they are

d - buy a tilt shift lens, which can minimise the converging verticals.

This is a slightly extreme version of converging verticals, where the camera is pointed directly upwards for effect.

And if you go for option b, you need to leave some space in your composition at the bottom. Once you're corrected the leaning buildings they will appear shorter and more squat. Keeping space at the bottom of the original image means that you can fix the lean and then stretch the image vertically to recover the height of the buildings. This can create some image quality loss though in extreme examples.