2022 Week 14 Straight Horizons

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Your Challenge if you choose to accept it is to produce an image with the a Straight Horizons

When you slide the arrow from the center to the left edge, keep your eye on Ocean / Sky to observe the difference

One of the most common mistakes I see is a simple case of crooked horizons or badly aligned lines. Although most photographers are very well aware of this one, for some reason some people simply fail to see such problems in their images. 

Think about the effort people go to, to make sure that a frame is perfectly straight in their house. Equally think about how frustrating it is when the frame tips slightly, it really bothers you doesn’t it.

Humans prefer straight levelled horizons and don’t respond well to things being off-balance. Now it is one thing when an image is tilted intentionally to create an interesting composition, and totally different when the photographer is not paying attention to or is unaware of the surroundings and background elements that are part of their photographs.

Be Mindful not Mind Full

How To Straighten Horizons 

  1. Line it up with the bottom or top of your frame, maybe the sides
  2. Rule of thirds grid 
  3. Post Production

Save yourself time by getting it straight initially in camera, good idea if you don’t have guidelines use the top or bottom, maybe sides of the finder as a guid. Some cameras & mobiles have a screen with lines (Guid lines) to assist you with a straight Horizon. 

Post editing, free software is available to assist with straightening up your lines for your camera or mobile. For most situations straight lines are so much more Visually Pleasing.

The friendly community guidelines are pretty simple:

  • Please follow the COVID-19 safety guidelines at all times.
  • Don’t leave home without your camera. 
  • Take a new photo for the current weekly theme, not something from your back catalog or someone else’s image.
  • Post your photo each week to our active communities 
  • on Facebook or Flickr (or both). Tag the photo: #trevorcarpenterphotochallenge  #2022photochallenge #photochallenge #tempusaura
  • Post your photo during the week of Sunday April 3rd and Saturday April 9th.
  • Please remember to comment on at least FIVE photo submissions this week by answering the question why? in your comments. In other words, why do I like (or not like) this photo? or why did this photo catch my eye?

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About Peter Randall

As a youngster I was fascinated by camera’s. At about the age of 10 years I was bought a Ilford film camera which I proceeded to capture images as and when film was available, not very often because it was expensive at the time. While at school in the early seventies I was studying Art with a view to going to University. I abandoned my plans for an opportunity in press photography, however the business was struggling within a couple of years and I was made redundant after three years. This gave me some basic ground work after which I continued with photography as a hobby photographing family & friends. Between 1980 to 1985 I had my own darkroom processing both colour & B&W film. Printing my own photographs. I liked Kodak products for colour and Ilford for B&W. I often though about joining a photographic club but family life was busy, never did get round to it. I especially liked photographing my family as they grew up. When we had our second son in 1986. I bought a Canon (camcorder) and developed a liking for amateur video work. At the time I had a Commodore Amiga computer, which at that time had the best graphics so I indulged in Video editing adding titles and cross over fades. During the 1990’s I started building my own computers and this developed into paths crossing with video work. Early digitisation of video. Like many things the early days were painful LOL. I remember video capture cards and hard drives struggling to keep pace with the necessary speed to capture. Setting up the software options in those days was a nightmare because software was definitely not user friendly. Looking back I think I jumped ship from film photography to Digital too early. The early Digital images were not Pretty. But the appeal of the concept was too enchanting. 1996 was the beginning of my Digital Photographic Journey. Despite my initial hiccups with Digital photography, I was definitely sold. Being able to transfer digitised images to your computer. The possibilities of the digital Darkroom and beyond. I joined the PhotoChallenge group in April 2014, and Ive been learning ever since. Joining the group helped me turn the tap back on allowing my creativity to flow again. I found myself anticipating each weekly challenge. I was motivated by discussions, ideas and techniques presented within the group. Constructive Criticism was always very useful because sometimes we can get lost on the journey. However although it’s really good to know the rules it’s so much fun to break them.