Composition: "The World Askew" - how do you know?

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Subject   Composition: "The World Askew" - how do you know?   [SIMILAR]
Posted by   mw2424 [PROFILE]
Date/Time   14:20:30, 07 November 2009 (GMT)

Dear jezsik
It seems that you may have explained the rules insufficiently this time, or entered the unnecessary one. All the photographs submitted so far may have been simply ROTATED, rather than taken with the camera TILTED SIDEWAYS, without any PP rotation, as I understand you have requested.
Actually, there is NO WAY of ascertaining whether it is rotation or camera tilt sideways, unless there are THREE independent levels (or verticals) visible on the photograph (or unless you have a way of knowing if any rotation has been applied to a given photo in PP. But do you?)
E.g., in case of a woman in red standing at 45 degrees angle, defying the gravity force, the photo could have been taken in a regular way and then cropped and rotated, or it could be a shot with a genuine sideways tilt - how do you know (except from a photographer's description)? You know it in cases of upward/downward camera tilt, but I do not think that's what you had on mind when talking of "world askew".
Because the ONLY WAY of knowing that the camera was really sideways tilted is when you have, beside the camera itself, TWO more independent levels: like on a boat (the camera, the boat, the horizon), on a plane (the same), with a plumb-line or a gyroscope visible on the photograph, on a roller-coaster or merry-go-round (that would be more difficult, for one tends to hold camera tight there, not independently of the seat).
You have to have THREE independent levels, to know that it is not cropped rotation but a genuine sideways camera tilt (unless a particular effort has been made in misrepresenting, let's say it is a relativity theory applied to photography).
Most of the photos are funny and interesting (especially the one mentioned, with a woman in red), so maybe the requirement of a camera tilt was not necessary. Maybe it was enough just to ask to see "the world askew" any way you please (i.e. by rotating the picture taken in a most regular manner in 99%)
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