when straighten a photo what takes priority horizontal or vertical

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I have a dilemma, when straighten a photo what takes priority horizontal or vertical.

The flood light Pole behind the player head is dead vertical but the hand railings are dropping
on the horizontal, in this event do you go 50/50 ?

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if you don't have an horizontal horizon it looks a b****r and even ducks cannot swim uphill

(so I'm trying to infer that it depends)
 
Yv said:
I think it can depend on subject and how much perspective issues you are getting too, however, in pictures like you have posted, I would always go with the @Gary Coyle school of photography and say verticals every time!
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Cheers Yv, Just been stalking his website :eek: to pickup some tips :sneaky:
 
IMO remove the pole,then look at the horizontal
 
The most important one matters most :D

At the seaside, the sea is level at either side (it bows up in the middle) so the horizontal 'wins'

In buildings its usual to place the emphasis on the vertical most close to the centre of the image, all the rest can lean depending on perspective and lenses

If you have neither as a 'certain' reference point, as here where the field my not be level and the post might not be truly vertical, then just decide what YOU think is the most important and go with that :)

Dave
 
You weren't shooting straight on to the hand railings, as can be seen by looking at their posts. So there would be some perspective convergence there for all rails not exactly dead on central. So making them horizontal would be a distortion of the image perspective available from that point of view. Which correcting converging verticals is not.
 
:ty: to all , one must strive to better oneself, but in my case a lot of striving :LOL:
 
sort the virticle and the horizontal will look aftre itself..
 
It there's a horizon eg seascapes I always go by that, otherwise its always a man made vertical because if you're not exactly flush with a horizontal then you have to bare in mind perspective (which maybe why the railings look like theyre dropping). If there are a number of verticals that converge and cant be completely fixed, I always go by the most central one. If ther are no true verticle like in a woods then the best thing to do is make sure the camera is level at the time of capture. My 60D has a digital level thingy but the bubble hotshoe ones are really cheap off of Amazon.
 
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Raptor Mike said:
It there's a horizon eg seascapes I always go by that, otherwise its always a man made vertical because if you're not exactly flush with a horizontal then you have to bare in mind perspective (which maybe why the railings look like theyre dropping). If there are a number of verticals that converge and cant be completely fixed, I always go by the most central one. If ther are no true verticle like in a woods then the best thing to do is make sure the camera is level at the time of capture. My 60D has a digital level thingy but the bubble hotshoe ones are really cheap off of Amazon.
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My rear view screen have that but have to go through menus to get it, I have now setup my Fn button for in viewer finder viewing :-)
 
Fix 'em in post. If you muck about trying to keep the camera straight when shooting sport, you'll miss the action.
 
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