Fixing Distortion
Have you ever looked at a photo or yourself and thought, “That’s not my nose!” or “Why do my eyes look so funny?” It isn’t just your ego protesting the unflattering image—photos can lie! Distorted images are a fact of photography. The camera records the subject according to the focal length of the lens. And adjusting that focal length can produce very different results. Thankfully, you can correct distortion in your drawing.
Lenses and Distance Lens focal lengths vary from wide (less than 35mm, for landscapes) and mid-range (85–120mm, for portraiture) to telephoto (greater than 135mm, for sport or nature). Here the lens is ...
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