Tilting pictures
Mar 28, 2022 10:47:52 #
chemsaf wrote:
This is a ananomy/posturr/ergonomic effect. I compensate by using the artificial horizon in the my Nikom D500. I have it set in a menu and toggle it via a front button. I only use it when shooting wide angle.
I do the same with my d7200 and d500. When things are moving fast and I am concentrating on the subject it still happens occasionally.
Chuck
Mar 28, 2022 10:53:58 #
Longshadow wrote:
And a great many of my photos originally have a tilt to the left (right side higher). I don't worry about it--it's been true for years, and I just correct it in PP.I thought of that also, but "pressing" (instead of squeezing) a shutter button on the right will either tilt the whole camera down a bit or just the right-hand side. If the right-hand side of the camera goes down, the horizon will be tilted up on the right, not down.
When I come back home from a trip, I usually run all my photos through Lightroom, anyway, and correcting for tilt and perspective are just part of my work. I'm not a purist who eschews PP--I want the image to be a reflection of what I remember seeing.
Mar 28, 2022 10:56:05 #
Your camera may have a setting for thirds gridline which can help when taking the photo.
Mar 28, 2022 11:07:20 #
David in Dallas wrote:
And a great many of my photos originally have a tilt to the left (right side higher). I don't worry about it--it's been true for years, and I just correct it in PP.
When I come back home from a trip, I usually run all my photos through Lightroom, anyway, and correcting for tilt and perspective are just part of my work. I'm not a purist who eschews PP--I want the image to be a reflection of what I remember seeing.
When I come back home from a trip, I usually run all my photos through Lightroom, anyway, and correcting for tilt and perspective are just part of my work. I'm not a purist who eschews PP--I want the image to be a reflection of what I remember seeing.
Mar 28, 2022 11:08:00 #
JeffDavidson wrote:
Your camera may have a setting for thirds gridline which can help when taking the photo.
Only available in Live View for my one camera.
Mar 28, 2022 11:17:32 #
Mr Bill 2011
Loc: southern Indiana
charlienow wrote:
Recently I have been going through some of my photos…one thing I have noticed is a large percentage of my photos tilt to the right. That is slant down from left to right. Not a lot, just enough to be annoying.
Does anyone else have this problem. Is there a reason this happens so often. When I am looking thru the viewfinder I don’t notice the tilt.
What are your thoughts on this
Chuck
Does anyone else have this problem. Is there a reason this happens so often. When I am looking thru the viewfinder I don’t notice the tilt.
What are your thoughts on this
Chuck
I have that problem on occasion if I'm in a hurry, and it seems it's always a tilt down to the right, probably from the way I hold the camera. I correct it in PP. On cameras with built-in level or artificial horizon, I always keep it on and use it; it helps.
Mar 28, 2022 11:25:32 #
larryepage
Loc: North Texas area
Longshadow wrote:
Only available in Live View for my one camera.
Some of my older cameras don't have a full grid, but can have little "hash marks" along the sides. Not quite as effective, but better than nothing at all...
Mar 28, 2022 11:47:00 #
JFCoupe
Loc: Kent, Washington
With my Olympus EM1 MK II I can place a 'level' icon in the viewfinder and this helps quite a bit. As mentioned above, I also think that pressing the shutter would lower the right side of the camera and result in a photo where the left side of the image is higher than the right side.
Tripod use and a remote release are potential options/solutions.
Tripod use and a remote release are potential options/solutions.
Mar 28, 2022 12:22:48 #
charlienow wrote:
Recently I have been going through some of my photos…one thing I have noticed is a large percentage of my photos tilt to the right. That is slant down from left to right. Not a lot, just enough to be annoying.
Does anyone else have this problem. Is there a reason this happens so often. When I am looking thru the viewfinder I don’t notice the tilt.
What are your thoughts on this
Chuck
Does anyone else have this problem. Is there a reason this happens so often. When I am looking thru the viewfinder I don’t notice the tilt.
What are your thoughts on this
Chuck
I have the same problem. Always tilts going downwards from left to right. I think its the way I walk or hold my head. Recently my doctor told me I have a slight curvature in my lower spine, and I think I just naturally hold my head with a bit of a slant, with the brain compensating how I perceive things. Thank goodness for post processing in Adobe camera raw and PS.
Mar 28, 2022 12:25:29 #
rmalarz wrote:
75% of the solution is realizing your contribution to the issue. The solution is quite simple after that.
--Bob
--Bob
So very true!
Mar 28, 2022 12:26:38 #
No one gets it straight all the time but one of the greatest aids for me is the very subtle 3x3 grid overlay available on many cameras. I've used it since the film days when you had to change the focusing screen to get it. It works to provide lots of places on the screen where a horizontal or vertical picture element can be aligned with the camera frame. ( sometimes that alignment is more important than true horizontal or vertical in pix without horizons)
Personally I like it better than the artificial horizon (which while more accurate ,but for me, is more intrusive.)
The Grid is just part of my normal view. As well as a visual queue to look for it.
If the right side is always lower, that sometimes results from aggressive shutter press --which is a good thing to know because that can also rob sharpness.
Getting everything straight and composed as desired IN CAMERA, is always a good goal, but Getting the Picture is always more important.
So straightening is always something I at least look at in post production.
I started with view cameras with studio shots , location interiors, and some Architecture. so it has always need something I think about. Though there are some good and famous photographers who don't worry about it at all.
Personally I like it better than the artificial horizon (which while more accurate ,but for me, is more intrusive.)
The Grid is just part of my normal view. As well as a visual queue to look for it.
If the right side is always lower, that sometimes results from aggressive shutter press --which is a good thing to know because that can also rob sharpness.
Getting everything straight and composed as desired IN CAMERA, is always a good goal, but Getting the Picture is always more important.
So straightening is always something I at least look at in post production.
I started with view cameras with studio shots , location interiors, and some Architecture. so it has always need something I think about. Though there are some good and famous photographers who don't worry about it at all.
Mar 28, 2022 12:33:37 #
JFCoupe wrote:
Lowering the right side of the camera would produce an image with the right side of the horizon higher, not the left side. The tilt of the image is the opposite to that of the camera itself.I also think that pressing the shutter would lower the right side of the camera and result in a photo where the left side of the image is higher than the right side.
Mar 28, 2022 12:40:04 #
larryepage wrote:
Some of my older cameras don't have a full grid, but can have little "hash marks" along the sides. Not quite as effective, but better than nothing at all...
Hmmmm.
I suppose one can add tick marks on the sides and top of the view screen (not ON the view screen) using a <LITTLE> dot of White Out/gun sight paint?
White Out will flake in time, gun sight paint will not.
Mar 28, 2022 12:40:14 #
Mar 28, 2022 12:48:11 #
rstipe wrote:
Same here, turn on the grid in your viewfinder.
Ummm...
Not all cameras have that capability, so a blanket statement won't work.
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