Re: comments

[Lea Murphy <lea@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I think everyone should go out and take pictures of their horizon and send them it to the gallery.

Lea


On Aug 12, 2011, at 7:12 PM, Roger Eichhorn wrote:

> Take some photos in a hilly country and try to figure out where the "horizon" is.  The best bet is to make sure that things that should be vertical are vertical -- usually trees or light or power poles.  Or just stand and look.  Same  problem.
> 
> Sorry about all the stuff that follows.  I've found that deleting blocks of text in an email is very difficult on an iPad.
> 
> Roger
> 
> Sent from my iPad
> 
> On Aug 12, 2011, at 6:55 PM, asharpe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> 
>> I think the crux of the issue is that the *viewer* doesn't know that the
>> terrain is tilted; all they can see is that the horizon in the *picture*
>> is tilted. And if there are no other clues, the visual assumption is that
>> it *should* have been level, but isn't. The "Dutch Tilt" works because it
>> is *so* far off from level that the viewer must conclude either that the
>> photographer intended it, or was drunk. :)
>> 
>> Andrew
>> 
>> 
>> On Fri, August 12, 2011 3:50 pm, Don Roberts wrote:
>>> Agreed, if we can resolve the "curved" versus "level" semantic issue.
>>> But I stand by my original claim that the horizon does not need to be
>>> level if the terrain is not.  Personal preferences I guess.  That is just
>>> one of the many things that makes photography so compelling. Don
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On 8/12/11 3:36 PM, MichaelHughes7A@xxxxxxx wrote:
>>> 
>>>> In a message dated 12/08/2011 16:47:02 GMT Daylight Time,
>>>> elf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:
>>>> 
>>>> There is no point in time or place when the horizon is not level,
>>>> sorry.
>>>> 
>>>> Given - both the Oxford English Dictionary and Webster's agree that
>>>> the visible horizon is the point (or series of Points - my words) where
>>>> the sea and the sky appear to meet. Many, but not all people, believe
>>>> that the world is round, thus their perception must be that the horizon
>>>> curves. Experience - whilst working in Europe for an American company
>>>> one encounterd the view that some Americans feared that if they crossed
>>>> the outer borders of their continent they would fall off. Michael
>>>> 
>>> 
>> 
> 


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