BebuLamar

Depending on what is displayed. It can be correct twice a day, once a day, once a month, once a year or only once.

Scruples Loc: Brooklyn, New York

Of course you realize that most people (mostly millennials) are down right lazy as dirt. They are the kind of people who spend a half hour searching for the television remote. When I was a kid, I was my parent’s remote control.

I am fond of those people who are willing to work to get the photo, Not sit on a nice cushy chair and be a mindless drone in front of a computer.

Thank you for being like me and being a well worn leather coat that isn’t afraid of doing something correct. I thank you for your wise and sage advice.

Scruples Loc: Brooklyn, New York

Tomfl101 Loc: Mount Airy, MD

I typically use 3-4 lights. A speed light on a stick at the camera with one or two Godox A200’s on stands lighting adjacent rooms. I balance interior with exterior light with shutter speed and use layer masks in PS for eliminating flash reflections in windows. I use the built in camera level to square up vertical and horizontal lines and LR to correct when I can’t (usually for exteriors). Everything in RAW with lots of burning and dodging.

awesomeda

I use a Nikon 850 and am active principally in landscape photography. In that area I use a Nikon 19mm tilt shift and found that it produces stunning images, very crisp even with deep pixel peeping. Beautiful images right out of the camera. I will tell you that using Live View is critical as you will still need to near and refocus far going back and forth to get the best focus you need. The in-focus near is very close to the in-focus far. Or you can just shoot two focused images and merge in PS. I have a number of lens all of very high quality and this is the very best. I believe you can easily use this the architectural photos and love the results. Hope this helps, good luck!

Architect1776 Loc: In my mind

On mirrorless you have live view in the viewfinder unlike old DSLRs to determine what is in focus.

BebuLamar

I guess due to the kids suing their parents for making them their remote control, most TV now can't be operated with just the kid. You have to have the remote control.

Nicholas J DeSciose

Shoot in raw gives you more options whenever possible start off with a lens first

profbowman Loc: Harrisonburg, VA, USA

I do some transformation of "perspective" as GIMP calls it. But keep in mind that getting rid of it completely results oft3en in a photo the appears not possible to have taken because our brains have been taught that straight parallel lines rarely exist in real life.

The loss of some fine detail mentioned by Larry can usually be minimized by reducing the size of the photo after changing its perspective. So, it is often good to change the perspective near the beginning of one's post-processing. --Richard

larryepage Loc: North Texas area

Over-correcting can result in the unnatural forced perspective that is common in primitive paintings or the modernism of the 1920s or so.

delder Loc: Maryland

Old School, we would tilt the paper in the enlarger!
[ if we didn't have the right camera]

MrPhotog

And then fumble for some way to tilt the lens so both ends of the enlargement could be in focus. Lens tilt was something rare on most enlargers.

E.L.. Shapiro Loc: Ottawa, Ontario Canada

Questions like the one in this thread will garner many opinions. The best way for them and anon else to make a decision should be based on common sense. individual requires budgetary consideration.

Because my "day job" is in photography, I may tend to voice the "professional" side of the equation, however, even in business, there has to be a budgetary decision on whether or not a significant investment in specialized equipment t is justified and if it the gear in consideration will be in frequent use and if it will eventually pay for itself in efficiency, quality, and customer satisfaction.

Personally, I have experienced both ends of the spectrum as per distortion management. I have spent hours on a single architectural shoot, interior and exterior, with a large format view camera or a customized digitally converted medium format camer, using every possible camera movement to "put it all on the negat, transparency or digital file. I also have made casual shots with my cell phone, quickly edited them on an Android app, and come uo with decent enough results but nothing that is going to be scrutinized by an architect or made into extreme large display prints.

As I have written in many previous posts, I try to point out the ideal ways and means, that may be expensive and extensive and also mention many workaround methods.

Also, somtimes it is more effective to NOT even attempt to correct the perspective and use the dynamic converging lines for graphic compositions or intentionally forced the perspective.

Architect1776 Loc: In my mind

What does this have to do with the question at hand?

Architect1776 Loc: In my mind

Interesting but way overcooked.