Straightening your photos

[DaveB]

Just in case it's useful to anyone here, I thought I'd let you know about a new article on my website. Tools to help you get your camera level, and tools to help you get your photos level.

Cheers

[Matt. K]

Good advice Dave. I notice you have omitted one of my favourite horizon straightening tools....put a book under the monitor......but then it's best to let students discover that one by themselves.

[LaurieE]

thanks for that.

those simple alignment tips make a lot of sense!

[tasadam]

Hi Dave
Yeah, it's a real bugbear of mine, generally it's the first thing I notice in a composition and I do not know why so many people post photos on various places such as non-photographic forums and sites like Redbubble, with way out of whack horizons.
Hopefully your blog will be discovered by many.

When I had my D200 I used the gridlines all the time, but still found the odd issue if I was not able to get right behind the camera - if I was in the middle of a creek standing on the same rock as the tripod and coming in from the side, for example - can be hard to judge in some circumstances. PS takes good care of that with the ACR line tool when needed.

I see you're coming down my way soon... This is an hour's drive for me

[DaveB]

When I had my D200 I used the gridlines all the time, but still found the odd issue if I was not able to get right behind the camera - if I was in the middle of a creek standing on the same rock as the tripod and coming in from the side, for example - can be hard to judge in some circumstances.

Fair point. That's a perfect application for Live View (and you get a 100% viewfinder thrown in for free). Oh whoops: the D200 doesn't have LV.

I see you're coming down my way soon... This is an hour's drive for me

I'm jealous! Moving back to the ancestral home (Tasmania) has been on my wishlist for years. Aint going to happen soon though. What time of the year was that shot taken? (Not that it really makes that much difference to the snow )

If you know anyone who might be interested in my Cradle Mountain workshop please send them my way.

[tasadam]

What time of the year was that shot taken? (Not that it really makes that much difference to the snow )

28th June 2006.
About 9:30 am.
You're right about not much difference, I was at Shelf Camp on Mt Anne and got a few inches of snow on 28th February 2008 (summer).
It was actually a photo my wife took, hence taken on the D70.
My D200 is "no more" so now I am shopping, probably going to be a D700 owner soon. Certainly the Live View thingy will be useful for the difficult angles I sometimes get at to take images. A couple of the images in this post were particularly challenging.