A bit of Amsterdam through the gx7

pocoloco wrote:

jeffharris wrote:

I can see in your shots that you were tilting the camera down. In order to decrease the angular "distortion", try using the built-in level and move the camera up and down (vertical axis) when composing. In this instance, try holding it level and dropping it closer to the ground.

It really helps cut down on the exaggerated angles, by sort of equalizing the angles between the top and bottom of the frame, so the angles look much less extreme.

I was slightly tilting it up... had to do this to get the roof tops on the left in view.

It was not handheld, on a tripod, extended to almost it max height to limit the tilt upwards as much as possible. Tripod was required because of the slow shutter speed. I used the build in level, it was level horizontally and vertically.

Some one else also suggested to step backwards, do not tilt it back/forwards and then later crop out the excess area. It will be something I am gonna try...

Thanks for the feedback.

you may want to check your level correctness "in body" compared with a exterior level, for example on tripod or those little bubble boxes to put in the hotshoe . That's how I realized the default level gauge on my Em5 and Em10 was slightly wrong, not much but bad enough . Once you have set the camera level, go into menu and choose the setting as default .

You should not worry too much about straightening verticals, I for one think the straightened pics look more artificial by unduly "raising" the perspective and you end up with vertical verticals that look weird compared to the rest of the shot , plus you lose 2 to 3 mm on the focal length, meaning you have more and more to rely on uwa lenses . I only do it if the result looks ok , if not I just slightly straighten the perspective . But barrel distorsion is an absolute must , though .

Last but not least , your pics are lovely .