Converging Verticals - Additional Research

Converging verticals is common in architecture photography. It happens in images where two parallel lines are coming closer towards one another. It has an effect as though they are leaning in towards each other but in reality, they are parallel. This may distort your image and give you an effect that you don't really want. The effect is most visible when you angle your camera up and you try to fit it all in when taking an image. It's least visible when you use a wide angle lens. The best way to prevent it happen on a normal lens is to take the shot from afar so the lines won't curve around the edge. Then you can crop the bit you want.

Example of converging verticals

When I went to NEC in Birmingham, I came across this company who created this software that is similar to Adobe Photoshop. The name of the software is DxO Viewpoint 2. I think this linked with our project because this software would practically fix any converging lines and straighten out any distortion. The examples they've shown were also used on architecture images so I thought this additional research would be very useful to show how we can fix this any converging verticals.

Screenshot of DxO Viewpoint 2

In this screenshot, you can see how the image is taken from a low angle and they've tried capturing all the building in the shot so there's converging lines. But after a few clicks by setting the edge points of the building, the image would position itself in a straight position.