I hear you, I think I'd blame some new wedding books for that, I remember reading some advice on tilting horizons on a Bambi Cantrell book (probably not the only one), and the justification was that tilting the horizon in the couple shot makes the bride looks like she is "falling" for the groom (I'll puke on that). To be fair, the same book recommended not to abuse from this technique, but the last wedding I went last year, 85% of the photos in the album were tilted, overcontrasted and oversaturated. That's awful, I mean, I'm playing around here with a new lens, no harm done, but can you imagine 50 years from now grandma showing her wedding pictures and saying, "well, tilting was the trend at that time", is like these so many movies ruined by the 80's fashion (hairdo's and miami-vice-style suits).
At least you talked about it, maybe you feel better now ;-) On 4/16/07, Bruce Dayton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I don't like it. The heavy tilted shots are all the rage in wedding > photography right now. Personally, I just don't like them. Looks > like lazy, sloppy shooting to me. There are a few cases where it > might warrant it, but for me, that is rare. Maybe I'm old fashioned, > but if you can't figure out how to hold or hang the picture, what good > is it. It must be a picture straightener's nightmare now. > > There is definitely a style out there now where the almost diagonal > shot is considered cool and artsy - at least in US wedding work. If I > had to hazard a guess, I would think some of it stems from all the > young people taking pictures of themselves for MySpace and such. Very > hard to hold the camera level and get a good shot of yourself. And > frankly, the kids don't care. I know, I have two of them. > > Guess I should just shut up and get back to work...sorry for the > bandwidth. > > -- > Bruce > > > Monday, April 16, 2007, 7:36:22 AM, you wrote: > > FT> Hi PDMLers, > > FT> I recently enabled myself with a 21/3.2 and gave it a walk on > FT> Saturday. Shot this, and already have in my mind a list of reasons to > FT> like it and not to like it. Comments are welcome but a simple "like > FT> it" or "don't like it" will do. > > FT> http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=459316961&size=o > > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
