Change Your Posture For A Different Viewpoint
Sep 22, 2012 19:59:52 #
Chinaman wrote:
Most photos are taken at eye level of the standing person. Change your shooting position sometimes if you physically can - sit or squat down, lie on your front or back, get up high and look down, crane your neck and look up. You'll be amazed at the different perspectives and interesting images you'll get. Enjoy, and comment if you wish to. Or add your examples.
Love your perspective! Here's a few of mine!
Sep 23, 2012 05:20:02 #
Thank you jk48, somegirl, jamm, phoagy, ftpecktim, Bmac and fdeak for looking. I'm pleased you enjoyed them.
Sep 23, 2012 05:22:38 #
Trippmeister wrote:
Love These. It's gonna be a while 'till I'll be able to do something like this, recovering from neck surgery.
Sorry to hear of your problem. Hope you recover soon. Can you move your head left to right to say 'No' to your missus or has it been up and down all the time? :)
Sep 23, 2012 05:45:05 #
Somegirl77 wrote:
Here are a couple I took with no idea of what I was doing. Would love to here what you think.
Hi Somegirl
Thank you for joining in.
Image 1 - Thats a lovely building. You have composed it well. Others may not like it leaning but I personally don't mind that as it shows how high the building is. It would have been better not to chop off the top. Your lens was not wide enough to take more in. This is a good chance to try out your stitching skills. In this case, shoot again with the top of the building showing and some overlapping of the bottom of the image - about one third. Remember to leave more spaces on the sides as you will need to do some cropping. Then open them in a stitching program and stitch them together. You may be able to do this in your Paintshop.
The lighting is much too flat. Play with the contrast and exposure buttons to bring more blacks to the shadows.
Image 2 - This has much better contrast than the last one. The sky is probably a white-cloud filled sky. Maybe reduce that. Not too keen on the vignette around it. I would like to see this image in colour. I think it would have lovely greens and reds.
Image 3 - This is a terrific image, and not only because it is a naked lady! I love the angle of your viewpoint, the posture of the figure and the treatment you gave it. Don't mind the vignette in this image.
Sep 23, 2012 05:55:36 #
adsway01 wrote:
When in Rome we went to the Vatican, and thought I would lay on the ground to get a steady shot of the dome without a tripod... The Vatican guard came over and told me to stop and that I was being disrespectful. Ah that's where they get the expression Catholic guilt.
Church and cathedral interiors are amazing to look at and photograph. Unfortunately, a lot of them don't allow the use of tripods, even if they have rubber tips or little table-top sizes. And they are generally of low lighting. To shoot upwards, I look up and manually focus, set the camera on timer (or use a wireless remote control - what? you don't carry one in your bag?) place it on the floor facing up, move away from it and fire away. Most times you get strange looks from other people. To shoot towards the alter, I would support and rest the camera on the back of the pew and pray that it will turn out sharp.
Sep 23, 2012 06:06:36 #
Natasha wrote:
Love your perspective! Here's a few of mine!
Chinaman wrote:
Most photos are taken at eye level of the standing person. Change your shooting position sometimes if you physically can - sit or squat down, lie on your front or back, get up high and look down, crane your neck and look up. You'll be amazed at the different perspectives and interesting images you'll get. Enjoy, and comment if you wish to. Or add your examples.
Love your perspective! Here's a few of mine!
Thank you Natasha for joining in. I like the tree shot best. The tree is sharp in the middle but the bottom and top are not. For this type of image, I would use a small aperture like f/22 and focus near the bottom of the tree and you should get the whole tree sharp from the bottom to the top.
The first image is well caught and well exposed. The third image can do with some post processing to reduce the brightness in some areas and to increase the brightness in the dark side of the turtle. Do you have a photoeditor? I am pleased you got down to the turtle's level.
Sep 23, 2012 06:11:11 #
Excellent photos and very good advice. I've done that several times myself and it does give a whole new perspective. Thank you for sharing, it's always a pleasure to see your work.
Sep 23, 2012 06:35:58 #
Sep 23, 2012 08:34:27 #
Thank you Cas and Jolly Roger. It is a pleasure to share.
Sep 23, 2012 08:44:16 #
Chinaman wrote:
Most photos are taken at eye level of the standing person. Change your shooting position sometimes if you physically can - sit or squat down, lie on your front or back, get up high and look down, crane your neck and look up. You'll be amazed at the different perspectives and interesting images you'll get. Enjoy, and comment if you wish to. Or add your examples.
Excellent composition and colours. Very nice and different.
Sep 23, 2012 09:15:19 #
Indrajeet Singh wrote:
Excellent composition and colours. Very nice and different.
Chinaman wrote:
Most photos are taken at eye level of the standing person. Change your shooting position sometimes if you physically can - sit or squat down, lie on your front or back, get up high and look down, crane your neck and look up. You'll be amazed at the different perspectives and interesting images you'll get. Enjoy, and comment if you wish to. Or add your examples.
Excellent composition and colours. Very nice and different.
Thank you Indrajeet. Did you recognise the first image? This is Akbar The Great's tomb in Sikandra, on the way to Agra from Delhi. He was the third Moghul Emperor in India and it was commenced in 1605. Like the Egyptian kings, they started building their tombs before their death. Unfortunately, he died before its completion and his son completed it in 1613.
Sep 23, 2012 09:26:27 #
Chinaman wrote:
Most photos are taken at eye level of the standing person. Change your shooting position sometimes if you physically can - sit or squat down, lie on your front or back, get up high and look down, crane your neck and look up. You'll be amazed at the different perspectives and interesting images you'll get. Enjoy, and comment if you wish to. Or add your examples.
Very nice. Here is one I took last week.
Sep 23, 2012 09:27:36 #
Good series
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Chinaman wrote:
Most photos are taken at eye level of the standing person. Change your shooting position sometimes if you physically can - sit or squat down, lie on your front or back, get up high and look down, crane your neck and look up. You'll be amazed at the different perspectives and interesting images you'll get. Enjoy, and comment if you wish to. Or add your examples.
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Sep 23, 2012 09:30:46 #
Sep 23, 2012 09:30:55 #
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