Tilting pictures

[MonstarPink]

Honestly, on regular landscapes and objects it can only ruin the photo and imo shouldn't be used regularly, unless, you see that changing the angle really makes some kind of an effect for artistic purposes. Surely, you don't have to always follow the rules for every specific subject, but if it becomes a habit, you'll just get used to making crap.

[tinffx]

I am probably in agreement with everyone else on the thread...a tilted picture works if it orients the subject. Think a sailboat on a beach leaning, maybe with a sunset landscape in the background. Tilting to make the sailboat straight might make a great picture, but otherwise it just looks crooked. Its a nice photo none the less, just my preference

[dannyrich]

I quite like them but I would tend to tilt to the right as opposed to the left.

It feels awkward to me otherwise, i think thats because book spines read downward therefore I have learned to view that way perhaps.

some great photos though.

[xxpinballxx]

I dont mind tilting at all but its usually from low perspectives and more than not is of city or urban shots. I have tilted landscapes but very few....

[fletch]

Originally Posted by fletch

Next time I've got time and photoshop I'm so gonna have a go at fixing this.

Much better now. Rotated the background but kept the model with the angular pose. I actually prefer the shot now, despite the butchering I have given it in PS!

[ricklumpas]

Originally Posted by wulf

It is a crop from the original image (shown in the book but I couldn't find a picture of it). In that, the woman is centered in the scene and the angle of her hips is on an implied diagonal from the bottom left to the top right.

With a bit more searching, I have found the image in question - it is called "Clothed Nude" and is by a photographer called Nic Tucker. The version shown on his site is higher contrast than the one in Cheung's book and doesn't look as good but it does illustrate better how the woman acts as a lynchpin for the skewed horizon. Click on the photo for a link to Nic Tucker's site:



Wulf

Sometimes breaking composition rules is necessary. And they also yield great results. This example of Wulf demonstrates the point clearly. I tried doing the same and posted my sample in "share your shot" 1891 basilica.