Re: comments

[Marilyn <marilyn160@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Carry a small level (one of the little plastic ones used for straightening 
pictures on walls) and put it on top of your camera while shooting outside.

Marilyn





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-----Original Message----- 
From: Lea Murphy
Sent: Friday, August 12, 2011 5:15 PM
To: List for Photo/Imaging Educators - Professionals - Students
Subject: Re: comments

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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