Cinerama leaning back - a natural result of pointing my camera upwards to capture the whole building.
Anyone who has stood at ground level and taken a photo of a building across the street has likely seen the effects of perspective distortion - you tilt your camera back to bring the whole building into frame, causing the straight lines of the building to appear to be `leaning back.` Tilt-shift lenses are designed for exactly this problem, but they`re expensive, specialist optics.
More often, this effect will be corrected in software, but doing so usually requires the user to stretch the top of the image and crop to avoid the blank spaces this creates at the bottom of the frame. Apple is tackling this problem with a unique approach in the iPhone 11: by capturing more data outside of the frame.
I don`t know, I just like boring photos I guess?
For whatever reason, I`m drawn to the types of photos where perspective distortion is painfully obvious - signs, sides of buildings, etc. - but I`m horrible at lining them up correctly. Usually, I find out going through my images later that I thought I wasn`t squared up to my subject even though I thought I was. Horizons are slightly askew, or I was leaning back slightly. Apple, it seems, has heard my cries.
When you`re shooting with the standard camera (with a focal length equivalent to about 26mm), the iPhone 11 will also capture image data from the ultra-wide (13mm equiv.) camera - a feature that is referred to in the settings menu as `Photos Capture Outside the Frame.` If you`re shooting on the telephoto camera of the 11 Pro, it`ll capture additional information from the standard camera.
That extra information is saved alongside your photo. When you edit that image in the native camera app, you`ll be able to use the extra data as you rotate and manipulate your image - a big help when you`re trying to fix crooked lines in a photo.
As you make image adjustments, you`ll ...
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