Thoughts on tilting images

[lukitas]

Over and again...

I guess I aligned on the bottom of the cloth.

leica m2, Ultron 28 f2, Tri-x

 

[lynnb]

I took this while running half-tilt...

 

[lynnb]

does inverted count as full tilt?

 

[lynnb]

Tilt seemed the best way to include all the picture elements. 21mm.

 

[richard_l]

The film (or sensor) plane must be parallel to the front of the building in order not to get a tilting effect from horizontal and/or vertical perspective.

 

[Pherdinand]

horizontality is yet another bourgeois concept

 

[rogue_designer]

Sometimes I find the tilt nice. Even necessary.

My biggest issue is something that is just a teensy bit tilted, because then it just looks like a mistake.

 

[Sparrow]

Yes it's a great shot ! . . . and it begs the question . . . "Are verticals more important than horizontals?"

... horizontals ... how often do you read someone calling converging verticals 'distortion' but except converging horizontals as normal

 

[Gabriel M.A.]

Some are rather "conservative" for the tilting crowd (and disturbing for the Anchoring Camp)

 

[Daniel Teoli Jr.]

Hmm. This one doesn't quite work for me. I'd have kept the building level and let the street's natural tilt work.



This one works nicely ... all the lines strengthen the focus of the photo.

G

........I concur

 

[peterm1]

Tilt is fine so long as it looks intentional. In my view of course. Sometimes it is unavoidable due to the effects of perspective when the plane of the sensor is tilted with respect to the subject - as when photographing tall buildings. I always try to make it a point for there to be one or more horizontal or vertical elements however to make the point that "this effect is deliberate". This is a more subtle way of incorporating tilts into images which makes it clear that the artist is in control of the image not the other way around. Some examples:

Behind the Peninsula Hotel by yoyomaoz, on Flickr

Blue by yoyomaoz, on Flickr

Structure, Colour 4 by yoyomaoz, on Flickr

Skyline 2 by yoyomaoz, on Flickr

Sky Blue Reflections by yoyomaoz, on Flickr

Waves by yoyomaoz, on Flickr

Occasionally an image lends itself to not having any obvious horizontal or verticals.

Framed in shadow by yoyomaoz, on Flickr