On 2011-08-12 18:55, asharpe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
I think the crux of the issue is that the *viewer* doesn't know that the
terrain is tilted; all they can see is that the horizon in the *picture*
is tilted. And if there are no other clues, the visual assumption is that
it *should* have been level, but isn't.
Yeah, I think that's it.
That also gives a second way out -- find a way to compose the picture to
give extra clues to the actual landscape (which might make it a better
landscape picture).
The "Dutch Tilt" works because it
is *so* far off from level that the viewer must conclude either that the
photographer intended it, or was drunk. :)
Yes, the reaction to "unusual presentation" is pretty much unrelated to
the other.
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