Perspective Correction

Straight verticals are non-negotiable in professional property photography. Walls that lean inward or outward immediately look amateur. Fortunately, modern software makes perspective correction straightforward.

When you tilt your camera upward (to include a ceiling or the top of a building), vertical lines converge, walls appear to lean inward. This is a natural optical effect, but it looks wrong in property photography where we expect walls to be perfectly vertical.

The best approach is to keep your camera perfectly level:

Lightroom's Transform panel offers several options:

1. Auto: Lightroom analyses the image and corrects automatically. Works well for most interior shots.

2. Guided: You draw lines along features that should be vertical or horizontal. The most precise method.

3. Vertical: Corrects vertical convergence only. Good for exterior shots.

4. Full: Corrects both vertical and horizontal perspective. Can be too aggressive.

5. Manual sliders: Fine-tune with Vertical, Horizontal, Rotate, Scale, X Offset, and Y Offset.

1. Try "Auto" first, it works correctly about 70% of the time

2. If Auto doesn't look right, use "Guided" and draw 2-4 lines along walls, door frames, or window edges

3. Enable "Constrain Crop" to automatically crop out the white edges created by the correction

4. Fine-tune with manual sliders if needed