I just wanted to share two tips with you. When photographing for Google Maps you might have noticed that it can be challenging to get the vertical lines looking straight up and down. In real life the sides of shops and buildings are never leaning, but it sure does look like it in many photos. Also on Google Maps. The problem is caused by tilting. Tilting makes your vertical lines lean awkwardly.
To fix it you need to know what tilting is. Tilting is demonstrated in the animation below.
Trick #1 is called the Tilt & Sit-trick:
Trick #2 is called the Zoon+Tilt+Crop-trick:
These animations/silent movies are part of my upcoming tutorial on Better Pics for Google Maps.
What do you think? Are such tricks useful for you?
@MortenCopenhagen This is so cool when I first saw it, to take the right perspective.
I have also always seen the perspective tool in Snapseed app, but almost rarely used it. So, for people like me, capturing it correctly the first time is the best option.
Hi @MortenCopenhagen this a very useful tip, and for photography it should be a skill required as a basic or introduction to photography. I find this mostly useful when photographing taller objects just like the building used here. What software did you use to show your tilting object, the one used as the main photo of the post?
I used the bundled 3D software that came with my Win 10 PC. I have another 5 animations in that series demonstrating all moves and turns you can mess with while photographing.
I will add the name of the software when I reach my computer.
Great tips @MortenCopenhagen and I can’t wait to see your next installment. I know your post is about photography but I can’t help but feel that maybe you should change it to the How-tos board where it seems more relevant as it’s more likely to be seen and searched there by LGs interested in learning how to improve their photos which is the subject of your post. If you’re not sure how to do this then see this great post: How to change the Topic of your post
