3 ms·

It’s a bit of both. I’ve done some real estate photography, and realtors get stupid excited about ultra wide angle shots. Me? I tried to stay as tight as I cou

It’s a bit of both. I’ve done some real estate photography, and realtors get stupid excited about ultra wide angle shots. Me? I tried to stay as tight as I could. I think it looks…classier? One other thing to keep in mind is that lenses aren’t especially cheap, and in this case you’d rather have too wide of a lens rather than something too tight, so people might go for the 16mm instead of the 20mm. If you’re doing it right (most don’t) you should be using a tilt-shift lens, and they’re usually $2,500+. Anything is better than realtor cell phone pictures. I had a couple hire me independently because their realtor just quickly bopped around their house taking pictures on her phone…vertically. Yeah.

alanbernstein 5y ago
Why are tilt shift lenses right for this?
- aembleton 5y ago
  You can capture more of the room without the fish eye distortion.
- AuryGlenz 5y ago
  You want to keep "verticals," as in walls, straight - but usually you'd rather show more of the floor than the ceiling. Being able to shift the lens up or down while keeping it level lets you do this. You can just tilt the camera and fix the verticals in post, but then your composition will be thrown off as some of the image will need to be cropped.
zo1 5y ago
Another one that's even worse than cell-phone pictures: Scans of pictures in newspaper listings!
nybble41 5y ago
> One other thing to keep in mind is that lenses aren’t especially cheap, and in this case you’d rather have too wide of a lens rather than something too tight, so people might go for the 16mm instead of the 20mm. If that's the issue then you can shoot the image with the 16mm and then crop to get exactly the same image (other than resolution) as you would have shot with the 20mm lens. For example, here[0] I have an image shot with a Samyang 14mm rectilinear lens, distortion-corrected and exported to JPG with UFraw. I then loaded that image into Hugin, set the input crop factor to 1 (full frame), and re-exported with a 84x61.9 degree field of view based on some online FOV tables[2] for a 20mm lens in a full-frame camera. As you can see, the resulting image[1] is what you would expect from a 20mm rectilinear lens. Hugin can also translate from a fisheye lens to rectilinear if that is the type of lens you happened to have on hand. The trade-off is that you're losing some resolution, but you would usually be downscaling from the raw image anyway for the online listings. [0] https://imgur.com/d0SumPb https://imgur.com/d0SumPb [1] https://imgur.com/gbz6mys https://imgur.com/gbz6mys [2] https://www.nikonians.org/reviews/fov-tables https://www.nikonians.org/reviews/fov-tables

alanbernstein 5y ago

Why are tilt shift lenses right for this?

aembleton 5y ago
You can capture more of the room without the fish eye distortion.
AuryGlenz 5y ago
You want to keep "verticals," as in walls, straight - but usually you'd rather show more of the floor than the ceiling. Being able to shift the lens up or down while keeping it level lets you do this. You can just tilt the camera and fix the verticals in post, but then your composition will be thrown off as some of the image will need to be cropped.

zo1 5y ago

Another one that's even worse than cell-phone pictures: Scans of pictures in newspaper listings!

nybble41 5y ago

> One other thing to keep in mind is that lenses aren’t especially cheap, and in this case you’d rather have too wide of a lens rather than something too tight, so people might go for the 16mm instead of the 20mm. If that's the issue then you can shoot the image with the 16mm and then crop to get exactly the same image (other than resolution) as you would have shot with the 20mm lens. For example, here[0] I have an image shot with a Samyang 14mm rectilinear lens, distortion-corrected and exported to JPG with UFraw. I then loaded that image into Hugin, set the input crop factor to 1 (full frame), and re-exported with a 84x61.9 degree field of view based on some online FOV tables[2] for a 20mm lens in a full-frame camera. As you can see, the resulting image[1] is what you would expect from a 20mm rectilinear lens. Hugin can also translate from a fisheye lens to rectilinear if that is the type of lens you happened to have on hand. The trade-off is that you're losing some resolution, but you would usually be downscaling from the raw image anyway for the online listings. [0] https://imgur.com/d0SumPb https://imgur.com/d0SumPb [1] https://imgur.com/gbz6mys https://imgur.com/gbz6mys [2] https://www.nikonians.org/reviews/fov-tables https://www.nikonians.org/reviews/fov-tables