How many of you bother with fixing perspective distortion?

[Sgt_Strider]

Also, do you guys bother with fixing barrel and pin-cushioning distortions?

 

[theturninggate]

Depends on the shot and the amount of distortion. For interior shots, especially, I'll usually try to fix the distortion.

 

[Victoria Bampton]

Yeah, I'd agree. Some shots look awful with distortion, others like slightly odd with it corrected. Most of the time I don't worry.

 

[Sgt_Strider]

Yeah, I'd agree. Some shots look awful with distortion, others like slightly odd with it corrected. Most of the time I don't worry.

So most of the time as in >9'%, you'll just leave it to the way it is? I guess the problem with fixing distortion is that you'll have to export it to PS and then reimport it to LR?

Do you bother with straightening your pictures?

 

[Victoria Bampton]

If there's an architectural image with lots of straight lines, I'll probably fix it. If it's just normal distortion from a zoom lens, I wouldn't worry. But yes, I do straighten wonky horizons.

 

[ajpl]

If correction was in LR, then a lot of people would do it. An oft requested feature.
Being able to correct lens distortion at the RAW stage is fantastic, you can do it in Phocus [though part of it is that some Hasselblad lens are designed with correction being done in software]. An image that looked fine, suddenly looks much better when corrected, though unless you are shooting things with straight lines like buildings, then it tends to be disguised - it's still there though.