Street Photography Tip: Try Using the Dutch Tilt Too
Sunday 26 November 2023, 14:41 by Michiel Heijmans | 2,875 views | 2 commentsThis article was translated from Dutch with the help of AI. Read the original.
It sounds pleasantly Dutch, doesn't it? That's because the English got German wrong in translation. The Dutch tilt is actually named after a film technique that was mainly used there, back then.
The camera was held at an angle, making the horizon run diagonally instead of horizontally. This briefly disorients you. What is going on in the photo? What am I looking at?
The technique is still sometimes used in street photography. I've always wondered whether it was deliberate, or whether the photographer in question had simply taken a tilted photo that happened to be interesting.
When straightening a very tilted photo, you sometimes have to crop away half of it, and that can ruin your entire photo, of course.
The Dutch tilt can create a nice disorienting effect, especially with beautiful leading lines. Give it a try yourself.
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2 comments
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wim wilmers wrote on Wednesday 29 November 2023 at 17:01 | replyeveryone's thing and own opinion but this kind of supposedly unconsciously created crooked images really don't suit me at all.
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Michiel Heijmans
wrote on Thursday 30 November 2023 at 12:07
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Hey Wim, that's what you say now, but I also see "more tilted" photos in your wedding shoots, whether or not due to the use of a wide-angle lens. That may not be intentional, but it does give your photos a nice dynamic - lovely shoots, by the way!
Translated from Dutch.
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