Can somebody please explain this ?

[DuncanDisorderly]

I'd always assumed that if the reflection is vertical then the horizon will be horizontal.
I'm completely baffled by this image I took last weekend as this clearly isn't the case!

It was taken at Valley of the Rocks, Lynton.
Is the effect of the tide enough to tilt the surface of the sea?
I doubt it but can't think of anything else.

Full frame, straight out the camera.
70-200 f4 at 144mm

 

[Paul Male]

It is isn't it? Or is it my screen?

 

[Gordon Scott]

The simple answer is that your reflection is not vertical by about the amount the horizon is off (checked in photoshop). The whole thing needs straightening.

 

[Paul Male]

 

[DuncanDisorderly]

No way!
You are dead right - I've just measured it myself too!

But my brain still keeps telling me the sun in Paul's 'straightened' image is not vertical...
Cheers - Duncan

 

[grum]

But my brain still keeps telling me the sun in Paul's 'straightened' image is not vertical...
Cheers - Duncan

Me too - weird!

 

[Yardbent]

I'd always assumed that if the reflection is vertical then the horizon will be horizontal.
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haven't got time to do this as off to work
but the sea doesn't have to be level

imagine a flat sheet of glass
with the edge angled at 45deg from your lower left to upper right like this /

with a light on the far side

the reflection will run across the glass from back to front and will be level

 

[fitzer]

No way!
You are dead right - I've just measured it myself too!

But my brain still keeps telling me the sun in Paul's 'straightened' image is not vertical...
Cheers - Duncan

I know what you mean,ours eyes/brains are possibly being 'fooled' by the angle of the figure and the tripod leg in the foreground, in addition the fact that your copyright notice is now on the skew will help to add to the confusion. Ain't optical illusions fun?

 

[mrtoad]

I'd always assumed that if the reflection is vertical then the horizon will be horizontal.
I'm completely baffled by this image I took last weekend as this clearly isn't the case!

It was taken at Valley of the Rocks, Lynton.
Is the effect of the tide enough to tilt the surface of the sea?
I doubt it but can't think of anything else.

Full frame, straight out the camera.
70-200 f4 at 144mm

the horizon should always be horizontal..thats the root of the word

sod the verticals...the sun moves anyway as it sinks