Images with scenes containing people tilted left or right (camera misaligned with subject, background, and surroundings) has clearly become a popular trend over the last few years (especially on the internet). One can easily find such images (portraits, weddings, etc) right here in the "post your photos" section of this website.
To me, tilting the head left and right to view such images is distracting and, if done often enough, uncomfortable. Further, it looks very amateurish, like the photographer wasn't able to align the camera properly to the surroundings.
However, trying to keep an open mind, I decided to ask those engaged in this practice if there is some benefit (beyond not having to make an effort to align images in the viewfinder), reason (family & friends want images of themselves tilted), or demand (customers prefer misaligned images). In other words, what is the purpose of this?
Of course, comments and/or opinions posted by others are always welcomed as well.
stewart
Edit: Okay, since some confusion exists, here is an example. I didn't link to a specific example earlier to avoid singling out any one individual. As I said above, this is popular at the moment, used by many in many images. This is just one example, in otherwise very fine images.
Note the first image with the couple and horizon tilted sharply at an angle. Note the similar misalignment in other images. This is the effect I'm talking about.
Last edited by stewart_photo; 10-04-2007 at 07:17 AM.
Reason: clarification