The more profound a photography tip I yearn, the more rote they come.
The rule of the thirds, going low which shooting kids, focusing on the eyes for a portrait etc. Then I realized, probably that is all there is to it to teach. I mean how much more can you expect an artist to explain an art scientifically?
I was reading this article about keeping horizons straight and said to myself, “Phoo. isn’t that obvious?”.
Then as I was trawling through some photos I had taken on a floating island on lake Titicaca in Peru three years ago, While taking this photo, I was so much focused on the two beautifully dresses natives, the reed infested surrounding and the mind blowing sky, that I let the horizon slide to the left. It immediately make the photo unreal.
The horizon is sliding left
So I straightened it.
it is quite apparent that the slope that they were standing on and the vertical bamboo stilts of the watchtower formed the virtual frame that made me ignore the horizon.
So after all, it is not always obvious.
