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11/29/2006 12:49:53 PM · #1
Is it just me or it is quite unoriginal to just tilt the camera to create a diagonal? IMO anybody can shoot anything and tilt it. I feel like I have to leave low scores for this unoriginality... Should be classified as DNMC... What do you people think about this?
11/29/2006 12:53:05 PM · #2
I think its already being discussed in the scores thread. ;)
11/29/2006 01:00:03 PM · #3
Originally posted by candlerain:

Is it just me or it is quite unoriginal to just tilt the camera to create a diagonal? IMO anybody can shoot anything and tilt it. I feel like I have to leave low scores for this unoriginality... Should be classified as DNMC... What do you people think about this?


Like idnic said: It's already being discussed in the scores thread - but I totally agree with you. Far to many pictures where the only diagonal is caused by a tilted camera.
11/29/2006 01:04:11 PM · #4
Originally posted by candlerain:

Is it just me or it is quite unoriginal to just tilt the camera to create a diagonal? IMO anybody can shoot anything and tilt it. I feel like I have to leave low scores for this unoriginality... Should be classified as DNMC... What do you people think about this?


I think it's ok, I'll usually -1 it on my overall score of the picture, but I don't see it as a DNMC, would be a little harsh with such lax & non-descriptive criteria.
11/29/2006 01:08:58 PM · #5
Ok... I will look at the thread!
11/29/2006 01:10:33 PM · #6
It's not unorginal in my opinion. The challenge description said it didnt need diagonal lines specifically so people looked for other ways to make the diagonal thing work and titling is a very interesting way to do that.
11/29/2006 01:26:34 PM · #7
Originally posted by jaded_youth:

It's not unorginal in my opinion. The challenge description said it didnt need diagonal lines specifically so people looked for other ways to make the diagonal thing work and titling is a very interesting way to do that.


I read the "diagonal line not required" part as a reminder that a composition my be strongly diagonal without any lines at all; the diagonal can be implied rather than explicit.

R.
11/29/2006 01:28:15 PM · #8
and sometimes you may get "blinded" by the "tilt" and not realize there are *other* diagonals in the shot.

look carefully when voting. perhaps there is soemthing there you didn't see . . .
11/29/2006 03:36:39 PM · #9
Originally posted by Bear_Music:

Originally posted by jaded_youth:

It's not unorginal in my opinion. The challenge description said it didnt need diagonal lines specifically so people looked for other ways to make the diagonal thing work and titling is a very interesting way to do that.


I read the "diagonal line not required" part as a reminder that a composition my be strongly diagonal without any lines at all; the diagonal can be implied rather than explicit.

R.


Amen to that. I sort of think in terms of the priority of a 'diagonal axis as the major compositional thrust', but that's a little unfair to those who don't know what that means. (?)
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