Weekly Challenge 12/5 - 12/11 Tilting the night away!

[SquarePeg]

This week's challenge, if you choose to accept it, is to use the "Dutch tilt" when framing your photos. The Dutch angle (aka Dutch tilt, canted angle, or oblique angle) is a filmmaking technique that involves setting the camera at an angle and tilting the entire scene. In film, it is used to make the viewer uneasy or portray confusion. In photography, the shot is composed with vertical lines at an angle to the side of the frame, or so that the horizon line of the shot is not parallel with the bottom of the camera frame. This produces a viewpoint akin to tilting one's head to the side. It was an Instagram trend a few years ago which has given it a bit of a bad rap by "real" photographers. But it's a lot of fun and can elevate a mundane scene by giving a dramatic effect. Give it a try!

New photos only for the weekly challenge please. Get out there and shoot!

How To Shoot Dutch Angle Photographs

Ah, the Dutch. Of course, I could trot off a whole battery of generic stereotypes about the Dutch but there would be no point. You see the Dutch angle, aka the Dutch tilt has nothing to do with the people of the Netherlands. It is in fact a bastardization of the word “Deutsch”. This is, of...

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How to Shoot Dutch Angle Photography (Camera Angles)

Dutch angle photography tends to break traditional composition rules. But breaking the rules of composition isn't always a bad thing!

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[smithdan]

Tricky challenge Sharon! It's hard to come up with an image that doesn't just look like a crooked picture, and one where the tilt compliments the composition.

 

[SquarePeg]

Tricky challenge Sharon! It's hard to come up with an image that doesn't just look like a crooked picture, and one where the tilt compliments the composition.

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Well done!! I think it helps to have both vertical and horizontal lines in the photo.

 

[smithdan]

Thanks. Kept the rug at the expense of the sideboard front corner for that very reason.

These work so well in cinema, perhaps because there is something kinetic happening..

 

[fishing4sanity]

 

[fishing4sanity]

In these photos I was going for a feeling of uneasiness or fear, something Alfred Hitchcock. I also felt that black and white did that more than color.

 

[Lez325]

Rainbows End

 

[SquarePeg]

 

[Robshoots]

 

[This child]

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The tilt in the photo goes with the road sign. One leads into the other.

 

[Robshoots]

The tilt in the photo goes with the road sign. One leads into the other.

Thanks. I was trying to come up with an idea for this challenge and then remembered this sign at work.

 

[TATTRAT]

 

[smithdan]

re-edit of one from the files, think the tilt enhances this one.