Why do some people seem to have such a problem composing a picture
through the viewfinder?
Last year, I finished scanning every one of my father's approximately
5,000 transparencies dating back to 1951. During the process, I had a
chance to really look at each picture in detail, although I had seen
them all before.
While my father was pretty good at composing pictures, there would be
times he would hand the camera to someone else so that he could get in
the picture too. More often than not, the picture would be VERY poorly
composed. I have one where the camera was tilted at about a 30 degree
angle, and you only see my dad's head down in the lower-left corner of
the picture. This was not just a one-shot blunder...all of the pictures
in the group are similar, although not as bad. The rest were
recoverable after rotating and cropping the image.
What is so hard about looking through a viewfinder? It seems so trivial
to me.
Gary
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