• 4am@lemm.ee
    18·
    3 days ago

    Can we see the photo, or do we only get the one of you taking it? /s

  • adam_y@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    3 days ago

    As others have said, a really easy improvement is to straighten that horizon up so all the water doesn’t tip out.

  • Skeezix@lemmy.worldEnglish
    111·
    3 days ago

    At the very least, you should rotate the photo so that the horizon is horizontal.

    • shalafi@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      3 days ago

      Then the subject is falling backwards. Plus, the tilt focuses the subject’s view to the lower right. Lends action, what is he looking at? PLUS, levelling the horizon reduces the subject’s importance.

      (Jesus, I sound like an art critic. But hell, I think the pic is near perfect.)

      • Skeezix@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        3 days ago

        it is not. a tilted horizon is never acceptable regardless of whatever else is going on in the photo. However the subject was standing with a flat horizon is authentic. The subject’s actual stance is more interesting than the false stance that the tilting has inferred.

      • Skua@kbin.earth
        4·
        3 days ago

        Also while obviously nobody should treat compositional “rules” as actual hard-and-fast rules, I do quite like this one if it is cropped to put the person and the horizon on the thirds lines

    • merde alors@sh.itjust.works
      21·
      3 days ago

      why?

      I’ve taken many photographs with non horizontal horizons. When the composition is more important than documentation, you can rotate the horizon any way you like

      • thedirtyknapkin@lemmy.world
        1·
        3 days ago

        because it feels off balance.

        the level of the horizon is a key part of composition. it effects comfort, balance, and groundedness. when the horizon is not level it will feel disorienting, dizzy, or chaotic. yes, you can break compositional rules for artistic effect, but you need to learn the rules and why they matter before you can do so effectively. the example you posted below doesn’t really make your case. it’s not that great of a photo, rotated or not. to intentionally rotate the horizon to give it an uncomfortable or disorienting feeling is fine if that’s the goal hell, maybe it’s more to feel otherworldly or any other number of things you can derive from it. the point is that you need a reason and intent behind the unlevel horizon. what feeling were you trying to invoke by not having the ground beneath the feet of the viewer?

        • merde alors@sh.itjust.works
          1·
          2 days ago

          yes, the example below is just a quick search and rotate on my phone. it’s not “great”.

          what feeling were you trying to invoke by not having the ground beneath the feet of the viewer?

          i wanted to transform lambda lemmings to art critics. I wanted to invoke an irresistible urge to comment

          • Skua@kbin.earth
            2·
            3 days ago

            I think that you’ve shown that non-horizontal horizons can be used to artistic effect, but I don’t think that just letting it happen without intention is necessarily a good idea. The horizon in your photo has clearly been very carefully aligned with the corners of the image. It seems much more intentional than OP’s image.

          • Skeezix@lemmy.worldEnglish
            21·
            3 days ago

            If the photo’s content is such viewer would be inclined to rotate the photo back to level in their mind, then there is no justifiable reason to have an off-level horizon. Camera tilts in and of themselves don’t somehow make an unexceptional photo “artsy”. In this example, there is no content in the photo that makes tilting it “add” anything to the composition. It’s especially bad when the horizon is the sea. This photo is not enhanced in any way by tilting the horizon. It makes it neither artistic nor cool.

            Instead, the content of the photo should complement the rotation, such as this

  • HexadecimalSky@lemmy.world
    6·
    3 days ago

    I remember my mentor told me, I forgot where its from, photography is made of two things, hours of setup for 1 good photo, and the once in a lifetime photos taken spur of the moment. Always know how to prepare and always be ready.

    This is a lovely photo, best of luck on many more!

  • ninjaturtle@lemmy.todayEnglish
    4·
    3 days ago

    Overall nice photo. Good capture of the sky. 👍🏾

    I would bright up the shadows a bit and rotate it slightly to make the horizon flat to improve it a bit more.

  • XeroxCool@lemmy.world
    3·
    3 days ago

    Those clouds don’t seem real. They meet the horizon but my brain isn’t convinced they shrink enough. Hell of a sky