Points of View
You shouldn't just hold the camera and take the easiest
picture in front of you. There are many choices you can make as a photographer. Photography is one of the ways that you can make people look at the world in a new way.
Look below for examples of some different points of view.
SCOPE OF IMAGE (wide, middle, macro)
Wide - R. C. McGinley
Wide - Heidi Bradner
Wide - Kent Barker
Wide - Sebastiao Salgado
Middle (human eye equivalent) - Harry Callahan
Macro - Edward Weston
Macro - B. Burgess
DISTANCE (far, mid, close-up)
Far - Paul Strand
Far - Jacques Henri Lartigue
Far - Margaret Bourke-White
Mid - Brassai
Mid - Weegee
Mid- Lartigue
Close-Up - Max Oppenheim
Close-Up - B. Burgess
ANGLES (below, eye level, above, unusual)
From Below - James Nachtwey
From Below - B. Burgess
Eye Level - Diane Arbus
From Above - Jacques Henri Lartigue
Unusal - B. Burgess
Unusual - Elliot Erwitt
ORIENTATION (horizontal, vertical, skewed)
Horizontal - Irving Penn
Vertical - Eggleston
Skewed - B. Burgess
FORE/MID/BACKGROUND
Examples of images that have objects in the foreground, middleground, and background.
Sebastiao Salgado
Edward Hopley
Edward Weston
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