Re: Anti-level camera techniques

[P3D Peter Davis <pfd@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> 
> Dr. T says:
> Note that if there is no horizon or sense of any orientation in the picture 
> (it is difficult to think of an actual situation where this is the case, but 
> it can be done, one typical example is when you shoot from the top looking 
> directly down) then shooting with the camera leveled means
> nothing because "level" is not defined.
> 
> I will add the following:
>   Just for the Hell of it, I pointed my Realist down toward the ground, from 
> the top of the Notre Dame Cathedral, in Paris.  Being of low  average height,
>  I couldn't see over the wall.  I had NO idea what I was taking a picture of,
>  but I knew I'd have fun figuring it out, once I got the slide film 
> developed.   The shot turned out to be a picture of the flying butresses, 
> from above.  Every time I show this slide to someone, they get a creepy 
> feeling. They usually verbalize it with something like, "Woah!  What IS that?
> !"  or, "Yikes!"

There is a View-Master demo reel with a shot like that.  It's looking
down from the top of a cathedral in Kolne (Cologne), Germany.  Great
shot!

-pd


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