How many times you have seen beautiful photographs that for some reason made you stop and say “wow”??
I don’t know about you , but me, I tend to look around and admire lots of different photographers and the more I look, the more I refine my own vision.
To throw some perspective or shake things up in your mind a little, I would like to talk about the angle you take photographs.
As a general rule, the camera is wider than taller and I’ve read somewhere that 90% of the photographs taken are horizontal. To make it worse, the majority of the images we see online are taken from the height level of whomever is taking the photograph. That makes sometimes nice images. Sometimes. Lots of times, however, makes them to be too obvious or too predictable.
What makes us wow an image are a little beyond a logical explanation.
It could be because it reminds you an amazing image you have seen before. OR maybe some image you always had in your mind and didn’t get the chance to create. OR just because you felt angry, disturbed, bored…you will try something different. Yes, that s more like it!!
Shaking the obvious out of your mind will most likely create some weird and not so perfect image, but in the end of this creative day , you will have an assignment that will get you somewhere where you have not been yet…create something you have not tried yet. For pure fun.
The art of using deliberately the tilted crop is strange at first. IT breaks the rule of “normal” and makes things more interesting because you are not expecting to see things from that perspective.
And quite honest, it is so cool to be able to just try things in another way. Had that been in the “film” age, and we all would be thinking of how much money and time this assignment or learning would cost us. Being digital though allows us to experiment more and try things more often. And if we don’t like it, we can always go and do it again. Just delete in the computer.
That‘s learning too.
So the assignment this month is to try a different perspective. Tilt your mind, will you?
I suggest to compose, frame your image as you would normally would. Then, tilt the camera to the left or to the right, step on a bench or lay on the floor and then recompose and take your picture!
Tilted crop is a very nice exercise to play with new angles and new way of seeing things. Just pretend for a day you are a 5 year old child and you don’t know exactly how you are supposed to hold the camera and take the picture. Cut things out, get close and experiment with a very different tilted crop.
If it makes you feel more inspired, go online and research tilted crop, different angles on photography, and anything that can get you motivated.
Then try a still life, a person, whatever you feel like, using tilted crop in your composition. Then, share!
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