Elevation shooting

In photography, elevation shooting refers to shooting where the camera is below the apparent horizon of the subject. Because the camera lens is lower than the object, it produces a look-up effect from bottom to top and from low to high.

In photography, elevation photography makes the horizon at the lower end of the picture, or begins to draw from the lower end, and often there will be pictures with the sky or a specific object as the background, which can purify the background and achieve the purpose of highlighting the subject. ?

In photography, elevation photography makes the foreground of the picture prominent and the background relatively compressed. When shooting with a wide-angle lens, the picture will show a strong perspective effect.

In photography, take pictures of jumping, flying, etc. , can exaggerate the jumping height and flight movements, with strong visual impact. For example, shooting the action of high jumpers jumping over the pole with elevation angle gives the audience a much stronger sense of picture than the actual feeling in life.

In photography, the image subject in the backup picture is tall and authoritative, and the visual component is greater than the normal head-up view. Therefore, the picture has emotional colors such as praise, admiration, pride and pride, and is often used to express lofty, solemn and great spirit and emotion.

Modeling effect and function of elevation angle (elevation angle)

In photography, the height of the camera is below the position of the human eye or the subject, which is called up-looking photography, and the lens of up-looking photography is called up-looking lens.

(1) In photography, the foreground is raised and the background is lowered, and sometimes the background is blocked by the foreground and cannot be seen. If the foreground is the subject, the elevation angle has the function of displaying the image of the subject. Achieve the purpose of highlighting the subject; ?

(2) Looking up at the scenery with vertical lines, the lines converge upwards, exaggerating the height of the subject; ?

(3) Look-up photography can form a tall and majestic visual effect, so look-up photography often has the meaning of praise, which is mostly used to praise and admire heroes;

However, overlooking and admiring this derogatory emotional color is not absolute, and another fixed model cannot be used. ?

(4) In photography, shooting people from behind can not only exaggerate their figure and facial features, but also correct facial defects. Short people can look taller, and people with thin faces can look fatter; For the face with wide cheeks, the elevation angle will widen the cheeks, thus exaggerating the facial defects. ?

(5) Shooting the jumping flight action with elevation angle in photography can exaggerate the jumping height. ?

(6) When shooting at elevation, the optical axis of the camera forms an upward inclined angle with the horizontal line, and the distance from the lens to the head and feet of the person varies from far to near, so that the image will have obvious perspective phenomenon and produce deformation effects that are not common to human eyes. The angle of large dip angle and large dip angle shows the unusual viewpoint of human eyes, and their images are often distorted, so they are called two special angles. The angles of slight dip and slight tilt are common angles. If the focal length and shooting distance of the lens are combined, the angular deformation effect of large tilt and tilt will be more obvious.

Picture function:

① Highlight the main body and purify the background.

In photography, the rising foreground is the subject, and the elevation angle has the function of expressing the subject image. Shooting the facade with the sky as the background can purify the background and achieve the purpose of highlighting the main body;

(2) The common narrative style in photography shows a greater sense of authoritative visual weight than usual. The visual effect of the picture shows praise, emphasis and attention. .

(3) with praise, admiration, pride, pride and other emotional colors. Tall and straight, looking up can form a tall and dignified visual effect, often with praise, praise and respect for heroes. Looking up at the scenery with vertical lines, the lines converge upwards, exaggerating the height of the subject. When shooting a tall building, we often use angle suppression to emphasize its height, momentum and majesty. Shooting a character will not only exaggerate the figure and facial features of the character, but also the character with wide cheeks should not use the supine angle.

⑤ The perspective effect of photographic images is good. When shooting at elevation, the optical axis of the camera forms an upward inclined angle with the horizontal line, and the distance from the lens to the head (or the top of other objects) and feet varies from far to near, so that the image will have obvious perspective phenomenon, which will lead to the unusual deformation effect of human eyes.

Practice shows that head-up has the function of recording and narration. Photography, up and down shots all contain strong deformation and freehand brushwork. Photographic plane shooting has a characteristic, that is, it emphasizes up-and-down symmetry and plain documentary. Shooting upward can spread the upward scene up and down the picture, which is beneficial to emphasize the height of the object. Taking pictures of people hanging upside down is easy to show high and upward mental outlook, and it also contains admiration for people. However, it should be noted that when shooting at close range with a short focal length lens, the characters are easily deformed. On the other hand, aerial photography is conducive to showing the level, quantity, geographical location and grand scenes of the ground scenery, giving people a far-reaching and vast feeling. Shooting from the perspective of high-altitude photography has the characteristics of truthfully explaining the geographical location, the number of objects and the distance, and the picture is often full and rigorous. Compared with overhead photography, overhead photography focuses on realism and overhead photography focuses on freehand brushwork. Aerial photography is not suitable for expressing the expressions of characters and the detailed emotional communication between characters. When shooting close-range figures or close-range pictures with emotional communication as the main part, you should not casually use overhead shots.