5. None of the above
6. All of the above
7. Both 5 and 6
I see where you're going, but I don't quite understand how someone else can help you decide this. I think it's something YOU need to decide for yourself...
I think you can actually tell where someone is on their photographic 'journey' by the percentage of tilted photos the post. I've seen some blog posts that are almost exclusively tilted, and some tremendously so.
TAGfan wrote:
I think you can actually tell where someone is on their photographic 'journey' by the percentage of tilted photos the post. I've seen some blog posts that are almost exclusively tilted, and some tremendously so.
That being said, I likes the tilt - sometimes.
Seconded, like anything else it loses its impact when repeated incessantly.
Tilting is generally bad for wedding photography - there I said it. If you research how the eye and brain process an image with a tilted horizon or with verticals that aren't at right angles you'll find that it creates an unsettling feeling and provides a disjointed comprehension of what is happening. If you look at cinema they use tilted camera angles when photographing from a serial killer's perspective or a villain or when a character is on drugs or something like that. The do that because our brains don't like it. We aren't built to exist in diagonal planes. So generally speaking, with respect to wedding photography you don't want to do it. Sure, there are other types of photography where this type of communication is useful. Probably not great here for the majority of what we do.
Then again, I think the majority of the time people are tilting to fit more into their prime lens on the diagonal than it should reasonably accomodate. That or they are trying to find some way to overcome a mundane shot. Kind of amateurish if that's the case.
I don't really like it but sometimes for closeups of the couple or for details it can sometimes look ok. Also looks ok in Winogrand's pictures. I think Bambi also made a big deal in her creativelive about deliberately not have vertical lines straight in her pictures because they called attention to themselves.
TRReichman wrote:
That or they are trying to find some way to overcome a mundane shot. Kind of amateurish if that's the case.
I feel this way about photoshop 'actions', tilt/shift, unnecessary use of or overuse of wide lenses, and 1000ws of flash outside in daylight. Now I'll go back to telling kids to get off my lawn.
The idea of tilting was to provide dynamic lines in an image in a scene where either non existed or to exaggerate an already powerful set of lines.
It rarely works when combined with strong shape.
I do think it is something that should be used sparingly, for a while many shooters thought that is what it took to separate themselves from uncle bob, that was their professional technique.
I disagree that tilts are used in films just to show a point of view from serial killers. Lots of films have used tilts simply to add dynamic to a scene. That is because strong line is interesting to the brain.
TRReichman wrote:
Then again, I think the majority of the time people are tilting to fit more into their prime lens on the diagonal than it should reasonably accomodate. \- trr
My wife used to do this when we shot together. Used to drive me mad. 2 children have fixed the problem.
