Help, stop me leaning please

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I'm not sure what i am doing wrong but when i take a photo it looks ok but when they are on the pc they all seem to lean to the left and i cant seem to rectify it, can anybody please help. Thank you x
 
Photos can be straightened using software. If the software which came with your camera doesn't have the facility, then try downloading something like Picasa from Google which will do it. The real solution however is to try and make sure you are lined up properly when you take the photo.
 
I do the same mate :)
seriously apart from shooting like the original Shakin' Stevens and need a tripod at 1/2000 shutter.... I always get a slant to my pix.
 
Thats brilliant thank you, i'll download Picasa see if that helps. I try to make sure that i'm lined up, i must have wonky eyes:lol::lol:
 
Have you got the "Grid" showing in the wiewfinder to line everything up?
 
Trev Rich said:
I do the same mate :)
seriously apart from shooting like the original Shakin' Stevens and need a tripod at 1/2000 shutter.... I always get a slant to my pix.
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I don't use i tripod, thats probably where i'm going wrong. it's nice to know its not just me :lol:
 
I end up having to straighten quite a lot of my shots too, in fact most of them. I normally don't use a tripod either.
 
jgs001 said:
I end up having to straighten quite a lot of my shots too, in fact most of them. I normally don't use a tripod either.
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Thanks for that, i just find tripods restricting and heavy :lol:
 
macros said:
I'm not sure mine has one but i'm probably wrong, i have a Nikon D40X!!!
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I'd be surprised if it didn't have a viewfinder grid. Check your menu under custom settings and there should be a grid on/off in there.
There is on the D70 and D200 that I have.

Hope this helps
David.
 
gwocni said:

I'd be surprised if it didn't have a viewfinder grid. Check your menu under custom settings and there should be a grid on/off in there.
There is on the D70 and D200 that I have.

Hope this helps
David.
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Thank you, i've just had a look and unfortunately mine does not have one :shake:(
 
I've just downloaded your manual and...... I'm surprised, there does not seem to be a grid display. I suppose you could try lining up the focus brackets with something vertical/horizontal or use the bottom of the viewfinder as a baseline. Again, I hope this helps a bit. :shrug:

David.
 
gwocni said:
I've just downloaded your manual and...... I'm surprised, there does not seem to be a grid display. I suppose you could try lining up the focus brackets with something vertical/horizontal or use the bottom of the viewfinder as a baseline. Again, I hope this helps a bit. :shrug:

David.
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Thank you so much for your help, i will certainly try lining up the focus brackets. It really does help and again thank you.
 
Or, I suppose, take the heel off the right boot................. :lol:
 
Hi

Try an experiment. Squat or kneel down and take a pic from that height. What is happening is you sub conscience is letting you "See" the scene as you want to see it where as your camera simply takes it. From standing height you will often be pointing the camera down and automatically correcting for angles.

Another experiment is to look at a scene and write down everything you see in front of you. Now take a photograph, print it and see how many things you can now see that you did register before


stew
 
I noticed that the missus did the same thing, then I realised why! When she lined up a shot the camera appeared straight, then when she pressed the shutter she appeared to ever so slightly turn the camera, almost as if the pressure on the shutter release was causing it. I think this is because she was used to using a compact where the thumb was underneath and therefore compensated.

I managed to cure it by showing her how to hold the camera slightly differently so that the palm of her hand was compensating for the pressure on the shutter release.
 
How about a hotshoe level? I've got a D40 as well and it has no grid so I find it quite tricky to get it level or even get the composition spot on
 
I had a similar problem 30+ years ago. I shot a lot of aircraft and would be concentrating on the plane and the horizon (if it was in shot) was rotated. It was simply corrected, in my case, by making sure I held the lens with my left hand's palm facing towards me and not away from me...ie, thumb to the left of the lens and not the right.

Bob
 
Xplosion said:
How about a hotshoe level? I've got a D40 as well and it has no grid so I find it quite tricky to get it level or even get the composition spot on
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Isn't a hotshoe level only useful on a tripod, I would imagine it would be a bit difficult keeping it level after first checking then looking through the viewfinder.
 
Galaxy66 said:
Isn't a hotshoe level only useful on a tripod, I would imagine it would be a bit difficult keeping it level after first checking then looking through the viewfinder.
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Thats what I thought when i read it.

Pete
 
I had the same problem with my old Canon 350D. As much as I tried I would generally get a slight slope on the horizon. I tried lining it up with all sorts but still got it. I thought it might be a Canon problem, but when I changed camera I still got it so it's me that is wonky :lol: As I can't trade my self in for a better model, much to my missus's dismay, I have resigned myself to the fact that I will have to correct any problems in PS. :)
 
every photo I take without a tripod slopes to the left, is it the same way for everyone else who takes sloping photos? :shrug:
 
Well the hotshoe level gives a pretty good indication initially when handheld and then its just glancing to it before you click the shutter, its not ideal but I find it better then lining up the focus brackets because if you line up the focus brackets, you get the horizon smack in the middle of the frame.
 
Tape a thread horizontally across the front element of the lens?
 
It takes a genius :)
 
Steep said:
Tape a thread horizontally across the front element of the lens?
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Don't be daft, it would be better if you filled the lens with water & just had a small bubble so the whole camera would act like a spirit level.










;)
 
It is to do with the Earth's rotation. The gravitational force pulls to left in the Northern hemisphere. If you go south of the equator your pictures will slope to the right, in just the same way the bath water runs out the other way down there.


Are you using a wide lens and compensating for the curvature of the lens as you look through the viewfinder?
 
Thank you everybody for your help, when it stops raining i will go out and try the different experiments that you have mentioned. It is really appreciated!!!!!!!!!
 
Lensflare said:
It is to do with the Earth's rotation. The gravitational force pulls to left in the Northern hemisphere. If you go south of the equator your pictures will slope to the right, in just the same way the bath water runs out the other way down there.


Are you using a wide lens and compensating for the curvature of the lens as you look through the viewfinder?
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Sorry to put a spanner in the works, but I don't even know my left from right. My pics tend to slope down to the right! Maybe I'm just in a parallel universe.

Mr Grubby, shouldn't you have prefaced your undoubtedly very imaginative idea with "Don't try this at home, children":naughty:
 
Lensflare said:
It is to do with the Earth's rotation. The gravitational force pulls to left in the Northern hemisphere. If you go south of the equator your pictures will slope to the right, in just the same way the bath water runs out the other way down there.


Are you using a wide lens and compensating for the curvature of the lens as you look through the viewfinder?
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Bath water running in different directions is a myth!! Its not noticeble and more to do with the shape of the basin etc etc I hope that was sarcasm about gravity having different effects on different sides,
 
stop doing this:beer::beer::beer::beer:before going on a shoot might help ha ha :woot:
 
Xplosion said:
Bath water running in different directions is a myth!! Its not noticeble and more to do with the shape of the basin etc etc I hope that was sarcasm about gravity having different effects on different sides,
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sorry dude your wrong there i went to australia in 2003 and the water definitly goes down the plughole the other way no myth!!!!
 
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