I have always noted that my landscape photographs seem to tilt in one direction. I never gave it much thought and always wound up straightening the images in Lightroom to get the horizon level. When setting up my camera for this safari, I wound up leaving the automatic level indicator as part of my viewfinder set up. I paid attention to the level and photographed when the line was green.
When I got to process the RAW files in Lightroom, I didn’t have to fix any tilted photographs. After about three days of not leveling images in Lightroom, I finally figured out I had been holding the camera at an angle all these years. I am not sure why I did this, but since that time I have tried to break years of bad technique.
I wonder what else I have been doing wrong either through faulty set up or my actions that might be limiting my image captures.
Overlook of the dunes just north of Florence, Oregon.
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