Day 251: Vertigo

2026-10-15Hello! I haven't made a good landscape photo in a while.My bread and butter of photography seems to be a documenting process, photographing people or things that I see around me. Sometimes, I get to tap into the creative process a little deeper.I've employed three tricks to make this image's effect stand out. Also, a bit of editing with highlights and shadows, but I'm not counting that today.First, I tilted the camera. I suppose I could have done this in post processing as well, but after trying to get the horizon straight for so many other images, I wanted to mix it up by leaning to the side. A small tilt would look like a mistake, but such a large shift really offsets things for a weird effect.Second, I adjusted the exposure triangle. With a long shutter speed, I could blur motion and smooth out certain details, like the ripples in the water. At a longer shutter speed, I could have even blurred the clouds into white streaks in the blue sky. But keeping the sensor open for…