Try a New Perspective

Every photo tells a story. Although everybody now-a-days is stuck taking the same predictable pictures that lack their own unique story. The Unforgettable Photograph by George Lange and Scott Mowbray provides many tips on how to leave your comfort zone, and take a picture you might not consider "right". There are many angles and perspectives you can see the world through by laying down, standing up, sitting, crouching, looking down, or looking up, so dont limit what angle or perspectives you allow photos to have. "You never want to feel like your feet are planted in one place, that you are locked at eye level, standing up" (60).

Out of the many suggestions one was to move below a subject and look up. This gives the person or object a sense of being superior or more powerful than the photographer below (83).It is an angle at which you do not normally look at someone, unless they are much taller than you or you are sitting or laying below them, which gives it an interesting look! To accomplish this angle try laying down on your back and looking up, or have the subject raised above you and just simply take the picture standing. I took this picture of my friend by having her stand on a boulder in front of me to raise her off the ground. 

One of the other techniques that I attempted was moving the camera over the subject completely. As Lange says, "shooting from above is as simple way to eliminate the background and get an interesting picture: We dont usually look at the world this way" (92). It gives the viewer a completely different perspective on the subject than would normally be seen. I tried out this technique while in the snow, and took a picture focused on the snow that had fallen in her hair with only her head in the shot. This allowed for a picture in which rather than having a distracting background scenery or full body shot you get the clear idea of the picture instantly. It allows for a completely unique photo, as do all of the suggested techniques given by Mowbray and Lange.

What is your favorite angle or perspective to take pictures in? What types have you tried before?

Citation: 

Lange, George. The Unforgettable Photograph. New York, NY: Workman Publishing Company, 2013.