What I’ve found, however, is that when the image is sideways, I have difficulty telling whether it’s sharp or not. This makes absolutely no sense, I’m well aware of that, and it’s likely psychological in origin, but it still means I have to orient the image properly to know if I should even be discarding it.<\/p>\n
Except, it seems to work mostly with ‘faces.’<\/p>\n
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This particular aspect tells me it’s probably psychological, because I didn’t have any problems with insects, especially ones that didn’t show their ‘faces’ at all.<\/p>\n
I found out some time back, too, that while I can identify helicopter models quite readily, turn the image upside-down and that almost goes away entirely – admittedly, this was applying to military gunships that have many of the same traits, but oriented properly I could name them in a snap while I was almost completely lost when they were inverted. There’s probably a good evolutionary reason as to why this should be the case, but I’ll be damned if I can figure out what it would be. I mean, upside-down helicopters have an obvious problem, no argument, but there’s nothing threatening or distinctly ‘wrong’ about a sideways face. <\/p>\n All right, I’ve wasted enough time – back to sorting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Well, some are at least… I’m sorting images right now, and a lot of them were shot vertically but not rotated until now, more than a handful of which I was fairly sure were going to be discarded anyway so I didn’t bother – why I decided to save this admittedly minuscule effort is a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[7323,7322,7321],"class_list":["post-34967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nature","category-photo","tag-discomfort","tag-orientation","tag-sideways-means-gravitys-on-the-fritz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34967\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"junebugs](\"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/SidewaysJunebugs.jpg\")
I can tell myself that I’m only looking for sharpness and that obviously isn’t changed at all by orientation, but my subconscious mind still whines, I can’t see it clearly this way<\/em>. It’s not like I’m trying to read, which I can actually do halfway decently sideways though the same inner anxiety is probably still fretting. And since I’m not just<\/em> looking at sharpness, but composition and contrast and all that, it helps to be upright even though none of those<\/em> are affected either.<\/p>\n