45 degree rotated shots new fad?

My cousin just received his wedding pictures back from the photographer and about half of them are rotated 45 degrees. Is this a new trend? He felt that lots of the photos would have been awesome and perfect had there been no rotation. My cousin and I agreed that it makes it harder to enjoy the shot with it rotated.

Can someone shed some light on this? Do all wedding photographers do this type of thing? It seems like a cop-out instead of enhancing the image in photoshop, but maybe it's just me.

kbfate_joker wrote in post #13291397
=kbf_private_joker;132​91397]Is this a new trend?

Old trend. Last resort method to get a bad picture to look "good" which can seldom be used effectively (see also: selective coloring).

TheBurningCrown wrote in post #13291428
Old trend. Last resort method to get a bad picture to look "good" which can seldom be used effectively (see also: selective coloring).

If it's a method of making a bad picture look good, the photographer failed miserably. Most of the rotated shots looked great as is.

kbfate_joker wrote in post #13291431
=kbf_private_joker;132​91431]If it's a method of making a bad picture look good, the photographer failed miserably. Most of the rotated shots looked great as is.

It's a "style," much like cross-processing or intentionally blowing highlights. It just happens to be a rather kitsch-y one (in my opinion).

It would have been cool if the photographer had at least asked my cousin if he liked that style before taking half of the photos that way. However, I guess that's what you get when you only pay $800 for 6 hours of footage. The photographer was pretty cool about staying an extra 2 hours for free though. Maybe he really liked the cake

^I confess I'd work a little extra for cake !

The diagonal thing can be done really really well, but there has to be some aesthetic purpose (usually when rotating lines some things up vertically, for example) or it looks ridiculous, in my opinion. I might do 2 or 3 per wedding, and never because I thought before shooting: let's do a diagonal photo !

any samples ?

Christopher Steven b wrote in post #13291670
^I confess I'd work a little extra for cake !

The diagonal thing can be done really really well, but there has to be some aesthetic purpose (usually when rotating lines some things up vertically, for example) or it looks ridiculous, in my opinion. I might do 2 or 3 per wedding, and never because I thought before shooting: let's do a diagonal photo !

any samples ?

I'm actually uploading them to Flickr now so that the rest of the family can view them. I'll post a few examples once they are all uploaded.

It's like disco music. It has to stop. We should all gather in Comiskey Park, throw all the angled prints in the middle of center field, and blow up the whole pile in a huge fireball.

Curtis N wrote in post #13291866
It's like disco music. It has to stop. We should all gather in Comiskey Park, throw all the angled prints in the middle of center field, and blow up the whole pile in a huge fireball.

At this point, I'd listen to disco over looking at angled prints.

I think some have their place to be honest.

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memoriesoftomorrow wrote in post #13292057
I think some have their place to be honest.

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That looks fine, but if it were rotated another 35 degrees, would you feel the same? Also, I think the wider the shot, the more acceptable it is. However, close up shots rotated make my head hurt.

kbfate_joker wrote in post #13291397
=kbf_private_joker;132​91397]Can someone shed some light on this? Do all wedding photographers do this type of thing? It seems like a cop-out instead of enhancing the image in photoshop, but maybe it's just me.

I can shed some light...

kbfate_joker wrote in post #13291431
=kbf_private_joker;132​91431]It would have been cool if the photographer had at least asked my cousin if he liked that style before taking half of the photos that way. However, I guess that's what you get when you only pay $800 for 6 hours of footage. The photographer was pretty cool about staying an extra 2 hours for free though. Maybe he really liked the cake

Bingo. $800 = bottom of the barrel, starting, inexperienced photographer. All photographers aren't bottom of the barrel, just starting, or inexperienced... therefore all photographers don't do this

Seriously though, not to harp on you or your cousin, but how is the topic of this thread anything other than "someone paid $800 for their wedding photography and is surprised that their expectations weren't met..." I don't know how you can expect ANYTHING when paying that little. I think it's totally fine to pay someone that. I just think it's crazy to have any real expectations about the photos.

bnlearle wrote in post #13292105
I can shed some light...


Bingo. $800 = bottom of the barrel, starting, inexperienced photographer. All photographers aren't bottom of the barrel, just starting, or inexperienced... therefore all photographers don't do this

Seriously though, not to harp on you or your cousin, but how is the topic of this thread anything other than "someone paid $800 for their wedding photography and is surprised that their expectations weren't met..." I don't know how you can expect ANYTHING when paying that little. I think it's totally fine to pay someone that. I just think it's crazy to have any real expectations about the photos.

The point of the post was to determine whether it was something commonly done with wedding photos and what everyone else's opinion was. It sounds like it's something done by very few professionals and has limited use.

Truthfully, the photographer wasn't bad at all. Without asking him, I was simply curious as to why he would rotate perfectly good photos.

kbfate_joker wrote in post #13292063
=kbf_private_joker;132​92063]That looks fine, but if it were rotated another 35 degrees, would you feel the same? Also, I think the wider the shot, the more acceptable it is. However, close up shots rotated make my head hurt.

Like this?

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^notice on the above image that the rotation makes it so that where the B+G intersect is like a vertical line ie. rotating has brought what is the focus point to an orientation we would expect. I'd say it works.

Now if 30+ % of the photos were rotated this way..