Lessons learned 8 by jcv2

Photography • Landscape • posted on Jun 29, 2005

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Since gravity pulls all objects in the same way into the direction of the center of the earth horizons tend to be horizontal. Those two words have an obvious relation with each other... :) When the horizon is not directly visible it can be confusing to get the horizon correctly. In this shot I found out I had to rotate the upper (original) shot 1.8 degrees and crop it to get it right. Sometimes it is not very disturbing, but shooting a sunset at sea makes a slanting horizon very obvious, most of us notice it at once. Lesson 8 - Take care to shoot the horizon as horizontal as possible. Postwork images with slanting horizons (except those shot with specail artostic reasons) by rotating and cropping them. Wide angle lenses warp straight lines (especially tall buildings, trees and horizons) and it's harder to get the horizon as it should be. Notice the center of the horizon should be horizontal. By the way, this is the Königssee, a wonderful lake in Germany on the border with Austria, close to Salzburg, enclosed by high mountains. Thanks for your attention and your always valuable comments Minolta X-700 (Agfa CT 100, 35 mm)

Comments (22)

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ralfy

3:21AM | Wed, 29 June 2005

thanks for this shot, love the koenigssee, the watzmann is a good friend of me ;0). (tried 2 times to climb the mount, always had to turn back because of bad weather, sniff).

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sharky_

3:23AM | Wed, 29 June 2005

So many times I have forgotten about the Horizontal. A good lesson here. Aloha

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vice

3:30AM | Wed, 29 June 2005

YOU GUY CLIMB AND TAKE LOVELY PHOTOS THANKS KEEP IT UP I LOVE THE OPORTUNITY TO VIEW OTHER PLACES

ZotKonijn

3:53AM | Wed, 29 June 2005

What a view !!!! This is amazing!!!! Magnificent photography you've did here! vote

pimbotin

4:12AM | Wed, 29 June 2005

You're damned right!!! I very often write comments like "you should apply a rotation of 2 degres on the right/left". And I do this every time I don't have a perfect horizontality in my shots. I just can't stand the shots inclined. Good point!

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jacro

7:18AM | Wed, 29 June 2005

belle vue plongeante sur ce lac,excellent shot

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SoulSearcherr

8:46AM | Wed, 29 June 2005

this is simply gorgeous

tvernuccio

9:42AM | Wed, 29 June 2005

WHOA!!! BREATHTAKING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i keep scrolling trying to see the difference and i can't tell!! LOL! but i'm just on my 1st cup of coffee this morning too! :) eyes not open all the way to notice that fine detail of horizon. it is a lesson i've learned...not easy to get the horizon well...uh...horizontal! :) Fantastic shooting, Jan-Carel!!!

vlaaitje

11:15AM | Wed, 29 June 2005

O my !!!! This is high........wonderful view

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marybelgium

1:51PM | Wed, 29 June 2005

amazing view ... interesting !

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pm_hackworth

1:59PM | Wed, 29 June 2005

WOW! Breath taking! VOTE!

cynlee

4:19PM | Wed, 29 June 2005

mine own personal pet peeve :P level horizons... what a view here!! o.O! ;D

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NMDesertRat

10:22PM | Wed, 29 June 2005

Woohooo. I can see my house from up there! Seriously though breath-taking shot. I hope to see more.

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LadyLisa

11:27PM | Wed, 29 June 2005

Beautiful capture!

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Akinom

2:22AM | Thu, 30 June 2005

Had already thought of the Kigsee! :o) An amazing landscape indeed! Yes, a very important lesson to keep in mind! Thanks, Jan-Carel!

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Enmos

10:42AM | Thu, 30 June 2005

Amazing scenery here my friend, awesome shot !! :o) One question though... how on earth did you find out... ? ;o)

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Chaos911

11:15AM | Thu, 30 June 2005

super good photo, i realy like this one!!!

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Cosme..D..Churruca

3:43PM | Thu, 30 June 2005

Impressive and a very interesting lesson !

deannemart

8:16AM | Fri, 01 July 2005

With all the mountains here, it's hard to tell where the horizon is! This is a magnificent view - thanks for sharing the spectacular scenery :)

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Punaguy

1:20PM | Sun, 03 July 2005

Truly one of the main issues with landscape shots for me. No matter how straight I think I have the horizon just a little bit off throws the whole image off. I find myself constantly straightning and cropping horizons...but I have learned to hold steady and line it up a bit more. Thanks for the reminder...Excellent POV on this beauty...just a beauty! Aloha~

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sossy

2:10PM | Tue, 05 July 2005

fabulous vista again with spectacular clouds on the right! in the far the impressive "Steinernes Meer"? when I am shooting and be impressed by a scene I often did not notice a horizon! but when viewing on the monitor. Sometimes I don't want to turn it because I think it looks more natural! ;o)

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