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perspective control

showing perspective distortion Perspective control, also known as perspective correction, is a procedure for composing or editing photographs to better conform with the commonly accepted distortions in constructed perspective. The control would: * make all lines that are vertical in reality vertical in the image. This includes columns, vertical edges of walls, and lampposts. This is a commonly accepted distortion in constructed perspective; perspective is based on the notion that more distant objects are represented as smaller on the page; however, even though the top of the cathedral tower is in reality further from the viewer than base of the tower (due to the vertical distance), constructed perspective considers only the horizontal distance and considers the top and bottom to be the same distance away; * make all parallel lines (such as four horizontal edges of a cubic room) cross in one point. Perspective distortion occurs in photographs when the film plane is not parallel to lines that are required to be parallel in the photo. A common case is when a photo is taken of a tall building from ground level by tilting the camera upward: the building appears to fall away from the camera.

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showing perspective distortion Perspective control, also known as perspective correction, is a procedure for composing or editing photographs to better conform with the commonly accepted distortions in constructed perspective. The control would: * make all lines that are vertical in reality vertical in the image. This includes columns, vertical edges of walls, and lampposts. This is a commonly accepted distortion in constructed perspective; perspective is based on the notion that more distant objects are represented as smaller on the page; however, even though the top of the cathedral tower is in reality further from the viewer than base of the tower (due to the vertical distance), constructed perspective considers only the horizontal distance and considers the top and bottom to be the same distance away; * make all parallel lines (such as four horizontal edges of a cubic room) cross in one point. Perspective distortion occurs in photographs when the film plane is not parallel to lines that are required to be parallel in the photo. A common case is when a photo is taken of a tall building from ground level by tilting the camera upward: the building appears to fall away from the camera.

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