A telephoto lens, which magnifies the image, can introduce apparent distortion in two ways.

• The distance between subjects appears to be compressed.
• Subjects may appear to be wider than they are at normal and wide-angle settings.

Examine your scene, and then take one of the following corrective measures:

• If objects seem to be compressed together that you'd prefer to be shown separated, move them farther apart before shooting.
• Alternatively, you can manually open your lens wider to separate the main subject from others in the foreground and background using selective focus.

Note: The distortion produced by telephoto and wide-angle lenses is only apparent distortion. It's not cause by the lens but by the distance between the camera and the subject. If you enlarged the center portion of a wide-angle picture to provide the same field of view as a telephoto picture, the enlarged picture would have the same compressed look.