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Shooting level

Shooting level

I was teaching a basic photography workshop one time with a friend and he joked at the beginning of the workshop. well, we just want everyone to come out of here shooting images that are in focus and level. And at the time, I thought, yes, yes, yes. We're going to set a much higher bar than that. But I was thinking about that moment last night as I was reviewing some images and realized, I'd shot a bunch of crooked images. Shooting straight is not always that easy. You think, oh, you just pay attention to it and your images will be okay. No, sometimes you can end up in a position where you might actually be paying attention to level, but you're actually incapable of judging what is a level shot. So, I just want to point out two situations that you need to be careful of that can lead you to be a little bit challenged in your ability to shoot level. The first is, if you are framing up a shot and you realize that you want the camera a little bit lower. Now, sometimes we'll go about doing…

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