News and Views from Dave Wilson

Which Version of Level Would You Like?

by on Apr.18, 2010, under Photography

I’m pretty much a slave to vertical and horizontal. I’ll tilt the camera up and down and change it’s height but seldom do I take a shot where the image is not oriented either directly horizontally or vertically. For the mostpart, this works but I’ve seen loads of really creative compositions taken with the camera tilted at some bizarre angle so have been playing with this recently.

Here’s an example from the San Francisco trip. This was taken from a tripod but I framed the shot to keep the Golden Gate’s supporting cables horizontal rather than keeping the horizon where it should be. It makes for an interesting, if slightly confusing variation on the normal version of this view.

This kind of thing falls squarely into the category of thinking outside the box and can be a useful trick in your arsenal of “creativity enhancing” exercises. Next time you are out shooting, give up the bubble level for a while and see what you can come up with.

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