Found an old friend today
We have been home printing this weekend for a small exhibit opening at Montana Mobile on Tuesday. We needed to find a photo that could easily fit into a preexisting frame size, tall and narrow. We found the right shot. It was a tight vertical portrait of a young polar bear taken in Svalbard, Norway, a few years ago. For us, however, it never really stood out the way it was originally intended. Taken as a vertical with the Nikkor 200-400mm f.4 lens. It was a good shot, but not great. Just for fun we tried rotating it counterclockwise, and the image became much stronger. It’s very rare that you can make a change like this and not have it look so obvious. In this case, because of the narrow depth of field, you have a hard time seeing that it was not taken originally as a horizontal. It looks much better big. We liked it so much we posted it to the intro series on our website.
Tell us what you think?
Photo after being turned counterclockwise © 2007 KEENPRESS