P3D Re: What did I learn last night...

["Oleg Vorobyoff" <olegv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

George Themelis wrote:
>Horizon splitting the picture in
>two halves and the sun at dead center.  This is awful!  Try
>moving the horizon up or down and the sun off center and you’ve
>got a much better picture.
>


I must strongly disagree.  Two points:

Most of my best sunset pictures have the sun right smack in the middle.  If you
need to follow rules to "improve" a composition you probably do not have
adequate raw material to begin with.  When the material is right the picture
snaps into being in the viewfinder, usually breaking some rule or other.  A
professional, of course, does not have the luxury of waiting for the right
material, but why should us amateurs waste film?

Secondly, the conventional 2D rules are yet more useless in 3D since the stereo
window is a much weaker frame of reference than the border of a 2D photograph.
Accordingly, a 3D photograph should not be composed in a viewfinder at all,
unless it is a twin barrelled one like on some RBT cameras.

Oleg Vorobyoff