How To Do A Good Rodchenko Tilt

Is this picture skew or it is just from an odd angle?

I thought it was skew until I checked the tower on the right-hand side.

It's vertical.

So not skew then.

But it looks skew.

Because it's taken from an odd angle, and the perspective is all over the place.

So your eye, and mine, spends most of its energy trying to sort out how the camera angle is wrong, so it can correct it.

That probably means a) it's a not-good photo, b) I'm a second Rodchenko.

So it's not a good photo.

When Rodchenko tilted his camera, somehow, the perspective remained comprehensible. Your eye says he forgot to put the camera straight, and adjusted accordingly.

With my photo, everything is so messed-up, you can't see what's wrong.

It's about doing something enough so it is intentional. Once our eye spots `intention', it can work out what that might be and correct for it. So this is an okay Rodchenko imitation....

but for this one, well, I just can't shoot a straight horizon...