Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/12/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]bernardo feio said: Subject: RE: [Leica] ocean... > Yes they are a bit tilted! I notice but I decide not to edit the photos. > They are exactly how they came out of the camera. > > Most of the photos I take at sea are a bit tilted because is very very > difficult to balance with the boat and kip the camera horizontal!<<<< Bernardo mon ami, The ocean doesn't flow up nor down hill and it doesn't matter whether the boat or ship is heaving all over the place. But when you make the print you straighten it! That is a basic rule of photography! What you have now in both of these rather fine photographs because the horizon is crooked/tilted are two spoiled photographs. The first thing a viewer sees looking at these photographs isn't the beauty of the picture...........they see .... the horizon is crooked! Period! And you are seen as a poor photographer because you shot it this way! If you had fixed it no one would ever know you didn't hold the camera straight ! >> I notice but I decide not to edit the photos. They are exactly how they >> came out of the camera.<<<<<< No no mon ami, this is nonsense at it's best! Because you are making yourself look, not as a wonderful talented photographer, but looking like stupid photographer for shooting a crooked picture!! You must straighten these slight tilts, other wise you make yourself look foolish in handling and printing your photographs! ted