Dawid Loubser
Member
Hello everybody,
I was wondering today about the mantra of always having to have perfectly level horisons in your photographs - to such an extent that some cameras even have a feature of warning the photographer if it is being tilted.
However, I am interested in seeing images from fellow photographers here where the horison is not level, yet the image is acceptable, or even interesting.
The only photograph I can personally think of in my work is this one, "Divisions of faith", where I purposefully skewed the horison ever so slightly to create a horisontally symmetrical image. I am still not yet sure whether the image "works" or not, but it was an experiment I was happy with. Since a tilt usually "leads" the eye (usually rather uncomfortably), an interesting effect leads the eye in the same direction as the rolling waves, to give a more dynamic sense of motion to them.
I am always interested in whether one's disregard of deeply entrenched
photographic conventions have merit, or whether it just appears as a poor
image. What are your thoughts?
Technical: Shot with 1D MkIIN and EF 200 f/2.8L wide open - to
blur the foreground sky reflection on the course sand so as to appear
as smooth as the sky.
I was wondering today about the mantra of always having to have perfectly level horisons in your photographs - to such an extent that some cameras even have a feature of warning the photographer if it is being tilted.
However, I am interested in seeing images from fellow photographers here where the horison is not level, yet the image is acceptable, or even interesting.
The only photograph I can personally think of in my work is this one, "Divisions of faith", where I purposefully skewed the horison ever so slightly to create a horisontally symmetrical image. I am still not yet sure whether the image "works" or not, but it was an experiment I was happy with. Since a tilt usually "leads" the eye (usually rather uncomfortably), an interesting effect leads the eye in the same direction as the rolling waves, to give a more dynamic sense of motion to them.
I am always interested in whether one's disregard of deeply entrenched
photographic conventions have merit, or whether it just appears as a poor
image. What are your thoughts?
Technical: Shot with 1D MkIIN and EF 200 f/2.8L wide open - to
blur the foreground sky reflection on the course sand so as to appear
as smooth as the sky.