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Jan 27, 2021 18:34:17   #
SpikeW Loc: Butler PA
 
My wife and I have attended a number of photo classes through road scholar. She always thinks she can't take a good picture which is entirely untrue---see enclosed photo. She does however have one major fault and that is she can't seem to keep a horizon level. I tried everything but she always reverted back to her original fault. Finally I came up with the answer. Without her knowing I put an innersole in her left shoe. Problem solved. She is so happy now I don't know how to tell her. Any suggestions.She does have a permit to carry.


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Jan 27, 2021 18:51:24   #
Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States
 
Occasionally mine are off too.....

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Jan 27, 2021 18:53:43   #
Quixdraw Loc: x
 
Is that what they mean by a "shoe in"? Mine are sometimes off as well.

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Jan 27, 2021 19:03:44   #
joecichjr Loc: Chicago S. Suburbs, Illinois, USA
 
SpikeW wrote:
My wife and I have attended a number of photo classes through road scholar. She always thinks she can't take a good picture which is entirely untrue---see enclosed photo. She does however have one major fault and that is she can't seem to keep a horizon level. I tried everything but she always reverted back to her original fault. Finally I came up with the answer. Without her knowing I put an innersole in her left shoe. Problem solved. She is so happy now I don't know how to tell her. Any suggestions.She does have a permit to carry.
My wife and I have attended a number of photo clas... (show quote)


The man behind the woman! The power behind the throne! It almost sounded like the punchline of a joke, but what's even funnier is that it was so minimal - but it worked Keep up the good work

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Jan 27, 2021 19:05:37   #
photoman022 Loc: Manchester CT USA
 
I have a bubble level on my hot shoe; when I'm shooting on a tripod I'm guaranteed a straight horizon, when I don't, then I correct in ACR!

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Jan 27, 2021 19:11:14   #
Curmudgeon Loc: SE Arizona
 
That's why there is a 'Straighten Horizon' or something like that in most processing software. Used to just skew the negative a little bit

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Jan 27, 2021 19:41:55   #
Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States
 
photoman022 wrote:
I have a bubble level on my hot shoe; when I'm shooting on a tripod I'm guaranteed a straight horizon, when I don't, then I correct in ACR!

Gesundheit.

I've had to "tilt" images a bit to make them look better aesthetically because of a curved shoreline.

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Jan 27, 2021 19:45:27   #
bleirer
 
SpikeW wrote:
My wife and I have attended a number of photo classes through road scholar. She always thinks she can't take a good picture which is entirely untrue---see enclosed photo. She does however have one major fault and that is she can't seem to keep a horizon level. I tried everything but she always reverted back to her original fault. Finally I came up with the answer. Without her knowing I put an innersole in her left shoe. Problem solved. She is so happy now I don't know how to tell her. Any suggestions.She does have a permit to carry.
My wife and I have attended a number of photo clas... (show quote)


I really hope you are joking.

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Jan 27, 2021 22:15:00   #
Wallen Loc: Middle Earth
 
SpikeW wrote:
My wife and I have attended a number of photo classes through road scholar. She always thinks she can't take a good picture which is entirely untrue---see enclosed photo. She does however have one major fault and that is she can't seem to keep a horizon level. I tried everything but she always reverted back to her original fault. Finally I came up with the answer. Without her knowing I put an innersole in her left shoe. Problem solved. She is so happy now I don't know how to tell her. Any suggestions.She does have a permit to carry.
My wife and I have attended a number of photo clas... (show quote)


When i looked at it closely, the horizon is not only tilted, it is also curved.
There is lens distortion in the photo. Perhaps the real problem is the lens and how it is used.
Lens distortion will always be more visible when the horizon do not cut precisely horizontal in the middle of the frame. Any use of thirds and tilting will make it more pronounced.

Certain visual cues in an image can also create an illusion of tilt or curvature. Diagonals like the shoreline in the image is one of them so that also adds flavour in your image.

Examples grabbed from the net showing visual elements creating an illusion of tilting & curvature


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Jan 27, 2021 22:34:14   #
ImageCreator Loc: Northern California
 
I have a grid in my viewfinder. Even then I am off so its all so easily fixed in post.

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Jan 27, 2021 22:52:27   #
Bill_de Loc: US
 
SpikeW wrote:
My wife and I have attended a number of photo classes through road scholar. She always thinks she can't take a good picture which is entirely untrue---see enclosed photo. She does however have one major fault and that is she can't seem to keep a horizon level. I tried everything but she always reverted back to her original fault. Finally I came up with the answer. Without her knowing I put an innersole in her left shoe. Problem solved. She is so happy now I don't know how to tell her. Any suggestions.She does have a permit to carry.
My wife and I have attended a number of photo clas... (show quote)


Some cameras have virtual horizons or othe indicators that appear in the viewfinder. They may need to be turned on.

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Jan 28, 2021 05:26:01   #
John N Loc: HP14 3QF Stokenchurch, UK
 
Rarely get them as straight and level as I did with the old split screen focus aid on my SLR's.

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Jan 28, 2021 06:37:09   #
yssirk123 Loc: New Jersey
 
Aside from the many good suggestions in this thread, I would add a note of caution. When you add a lift to only one shoe, you're changing the balance of stress placed on the hips which isn't a good thing. Since horizons can be easily corrected in post, that would be a different way to fix the problem.

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Jan 28, 2021 08:08:19   #
jaymatt Loc: Alexandria, Indiana
 
I have that problem a lot; that’s what some of post-processing is for.

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Jan 28, 2021 08:09:31   #
Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States
 
jaymatt wrote:
I have that problem a lot; that’s what some of post-processing is for.


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