Gary Edstrom wrote:
> 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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