Quite often when shooting landscapes, or more commonly seascapes, you may run into a problem with parallel horizontals and distortion between far and near horizontal features such as in the image below.

Parallel horizontals that are not parallel – but should be!

This sort of error cannot be fully corrected in Lightroom alone; we have to send the image to Photoshop in order to make the corrections in the most efficient manner.

Here’s a video lesson on how to effectively do just that, using the simplest, easiest and quickest of methods:

You can watch the video at full size HERE – make sure you click the HD icon.

This is something which commonly happens when photographing water with a regular shaped man-made structure in the foreground and a foreshortened horizon line such as the receding opposite shore in this shot.  But with a little logical thought these problems with parallel horizontals being “out of kilter” can be easily cured.

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