Alternative Angles

Facts on alternate angles 

“Camera angles” is one of those illusive terms in photography that means slightly different things to different people. Here I’ll define it in four basic ways.

1. Vertical orientations: What’s the up-or-down position that you’re taking relative to the subject? Are you above, below, or at the same level of the subject? In other words, are you taking the shot at a level, high, or low angle? Photographers usually refer to this vertical variable as “camera height.”

2. Horizontal orientations: On the plane of space circling around the subject, are you standing in front, behind, or to the side? Of course, this assumes that the subject or scene has a front and back, which would be the case with people, animals, buildings, rooms, cars, or other objects that seem to be in motion or that we tend to anthropomorphize. In other situations, like landscapes, the concepts of “front” and “back” might not apply.

3. Tilted orientations: We usually experience the world as lines and shapes organized in relationship to the ground or a surface that is horizontally level. Even if you tilt your head to one side or the other, the scene around you still tends to register in your mind as a level plane, which just goes to show you how robust human perception is. But if you tilt a camera to one side or another while taking a shot, the resulting photo portrays a scene that appears unnaturally slanted up or down. That’s a unique aspect of the photographic image. 

4. Field of View: Sometimes called the angle of view or the angle of coverage, the field of view is simply the area of the scene and subject that you can see through the viewfinder and in the resulting shot. Is it a big or narrow area being portrayed? The difference in angle of view determines how far into a scene you are going, how much you are immersed into the details or individual subjects within the scene. They include the long or wide view, the medium view, and the narrow view or close-up.

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Birds Eye View

As you can see in this photo, the person is standing over a table, hovering over their plate with their phone to capture this image. By taking a photo from this angle the views can see the whole plate rather than if they were sitting down at the table it would be more of a side angle not showing the whole image. 

 

Worms Eye View

This photo appears to be taken outdoors from the ground looking up at the sky to sho the bottom of the dogs mouth. The photographer may have laid on the ground holding their camera under the dogs mouth to capture this image. 

Eye Level 

This is an image of a dog who seems to be looking out a window with the light shining on the dogs face. It was captured at eye level at a straight angle and shows one side of the animals face. 

Tilted


This image is a view of a city with big buildings and statues. The photographer tilted their camera to capture this angle which gives the look as though the buildings are tilted.

Birds Eye View

Worms Eye View

Eye Level

Tilted

I felt that these four images were the best out of the ones I captured. They are all different in many ways and are very unique. Not editing any of the images, I used tables and a plant that I found to make sure I got the right angles. My prop is very unique so it was fun for me to use it in different ways such as hanging it and laying it on a table.