Sardine
TPF Noob!
- Joined
- Apr 25, 2008
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- Location
- Somerset West, South Africa
- Can others edit my Photos
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No matter what I do, when I take photos of paintings, they won't be square. The tend to get thinner at the top/bottom. I've used a tripod, I've put them on the floor, walls and chairs. I can be far away, close, no zoom, full zoom, half zoom.. and yet they still don't come out square.
My camera (Fujifilm s8000) has a function that makes little blocks appear on the screen so you can center and make sure the photo will be level etc, but it doesn't help.I've tried using a different camera, but I have the same problem. Sometimes I also get a bit of a fish-eye effect. And other times, it gets thinner in the middle, then widens at the top and bottom.
I normally end up cutting a good few cm's off each photo in an attempt to get it all nice and square. Half of the time I end up cutting half the artists signature off, or part of the subject in the painting.
What can I do?!
Slight fish-eye effect
Hour-glass figure
Widening at top/bottom
My camera (Fujifilm s8000) has a function that makes little blocks appear on the screen so you can center and make sure the photo will be level etc, but it doesn't help.I've tried using a different camera, but I have the same problem. Sometimes I also get a bit of a fish-eye effect. And other times, it gets thinner in the middle, then widens at the top and bottom.
I normally end up cutting a good few cm's off each photo in an attempt to get it all nice and square. Half of the time I end up cutting half the artists signature off, or part of the subject in the painting.
What can I do?!
Slight fish-eye effect
Hour-glass figure
Widening at top/bottom