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Subject: [Leica] IMG: Maggie at the helm - opinions wanted.
From: tedgrant at shaw.ca (tedgrant at shaw.ca)
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2009 13:50:58 -0800
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Nathan Wajsman offered:
Subject: Re: [Leica] IMG: Maggie at the helm - opinions wanted.


> Hi Larry,
>
> I see that many people have already replied, but I have not seen what they 
> wrote. So I may be shouting with the crowd, or I may a minority of 1. In 
> any event, I think the tilted version does a better job of conveying the 
> dynamism of the sport.<

Hi Nathan and crew!

Nathan mon ami that maybe the case as you explain. Unfortunately that isn't 
real life looking at magazines and posted photographs. And where some art 
director has wasted a page with  a falling off the planet tilt it usually 
begets the question :
A: the photographer was a klutz for tilting for a lousy effect.
B:/ Or the art director wasn't any better than a visually impaired art 
director for a cheap effect. Trust me many are! :-)

People who've never sailed see the "horizon line as perfectly straight" we 
who have sailed or boated in rough waters know that isn't always the case in 
reality. And the horizon can be from here to hell and back! Ooohhhh so bad 
sometimes!!!!!! :-) But that's OK it's real life, but doesn't work on the 
printed page! Sometimes it does. Actually it doesn't work on the printed 
page most times!

But to the general public a straight horizon is a must! It's not any 
different than one of my "hate things about tilting!"  It's when a 
photographer shoots a perfectly, should've been absolutely straight vertical 
and horizontal image. Then "oh no they have to shoot some crazy assed tilted 
angle effect" to save it in their mind!!"  Crooked is crooked and never the 
twain will meet only in very few situations where it truly works without 
making you want to throw-up or hold the magazine in a manner to straighten 
the crooked cropping.

In the case of Larry's photograph the squared away photo is by far the best, 
because it takes it away from... "well that photographer didn't know how to 
hold the camera straight did he?"  Which we all know he does know how to 
hold it straight but sometimes crooked happens.... but then it must be 
corrected simply because it doesn't look right ! Certainly when you see the 
straightened image and crooked image!

my 2 pennies worth.
ted







In reply to: Message from lrzeitlin at gmail.com (Lawrence Zeitlin) ([Leica] IMG: Maggie at the helm - opinions wanted.)
Message from photo at frozenlight.eu (Nathan Wajsman) ([Leica] IMG: Maggie at the helm - opinions wanted.)