33. WATCH YOUR HORIZON
I HAD A photography professor in college who joked about the placement of the horizon in images. In quintessential West Texan style, he’d say things like, “Make sure you’re not losing any water,” when referring to tilted horizons. His jokes were comical ways of explaining something important about the way an image looks. Although we often emphasize the placement of the horizon and its angle more strongly when discussing landscape photography, it still plays a part in portraits.
As mentioned earlier in the chapter, it’s best to avoid placing the horizon in the middle of the frame because it can unintentionally create equal ...
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