Low-angle shooting skill

Lead: In most cases, we are used to seeing the world from a perspective close to our height, especially when taking pictures. Admittedly, the horizontal shooting angle is the most in line with our visual habits and can best reflect what we see? Real? But you might as well try to lower your body and shoot at a low angle, and you will see the other side of the world. What theme is suitable for low-angle shooting, what are the characteristics and precautions? Take a picture today and explain it to everyone.

Low angle shooting skill 1

Children and animals

Children's height is much lower than that of adults, so they can only be photographed from a daily perspective.

The prone position is far away from the child's face and relatively distant. At the same time, children must look back at the camera. This uncomfortable posture often brings a stiff expression.

The condescending perspective is not close enough, and the child's expression is not very natural.

Get down and shoot.

Low-angle flat shooting reduces the sense of viewing distance, the picture has a close emotion, and the child's expressions and movements are often more natural.

It's not enough to squat when photographing a baby. You may have to kneel or even lie on the ground to reach the same level as your baby.

It's embarrassing, but it's worth it for a good photo!

The same is true for shooting small animals.

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Take a sense of height

When we shoot buildings, we all know that inverted photography can make buildings look taller. In the same way, we can shoot ordinary objects from a low angle, and we can also shoot high sense.

For example, when shooting small animals, you can use low-angle visual tricks to turn small animals into giants.

Adding some scenes with intuitive scale to the background, such as trees and houses, will have better effect.

The puppy shot from a low angle turned into an elephant.

When taking portraits, of course, you can also use a low angle to make people look taller.

But at the same time, we should also pay attention to the fact that the legs of the characters will be particularly thick and the backhand angle and face shape will not look good, so we need to adjust our posture to avoid these defects.

Generally, when taking such photos, they will bow their heads to show their little faces and try to narrow the outline of their legs by crossing their front and rear feet, putting them together and standing.

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Shoot into the sky

When shooting blue sky and white clouds, we often want to add some foreground scenery, such as tall buildings and branches, to avoid the picture being too empty and dull.

But sometimes, there are no tall objects like trees and tall buildings around us, so we need to shoot at a low angle.

From a low point of view, the originally short flowers and plants become tall buildings, which is enough for us to add them to the picture as the foreground of blue sky and white clouds.

The same is true for shooting the stars. Low shooting angle is convenient to add ground foreground to the picture.

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Vertical landscape photograph

An important performance of vertical photos is that they have prospects? Charming? Composition.

When shooting this kind of works, we usually choose the foreground, middle and background scenes with obvious levels, and deploy them in the lower, middle and upper parts of the picture in turn.

As shown below, the water plants in the foreground, the stones in the middle and the mountains in the background are very distinct.

It is necessary to shoot such works at a low angle.

At a low angle, the foreground scene is very close to the audience, which is easy to make the audience feel immersive. At the same time, the linear perspective effect can be effectively used to produce the contrast between the foreground and the background and enhance the depth of the picture.

In addition, a lower angle can get a better vertical perspective, which is the most important aspect of vertical landscape photography.

As shown in the following figure, in the general perspective of the left figure, the expressway almost occupies the whole picture; The right side has a low viewing angle and a small proportion of roads, and the picture can be integrated into the mountain peak as a distant view.

Today, the photographer introduced the above four subjects who need low-angle shooting most, which does not mean that other subjects do not need to try low-angle shooting.

In many other subjects, a normal perspective can often achieve good results, but a low perspective may also bring some different feelings to the picture.

For example, the picture position of low-angle and long-exposure car rail is higher, which has one more point to direct visual impact than ordinary car rail photos.

Good horizontal viewing angle, good low angle. When you feel that the photos are a little boring and lack creativity, you can try shooting at a low angle.

Next, I will continue to explain some skills and precautions for shooting at low angles.

Most photographers observe the world from a horizontal angle most of the time, and they are used to using it when shooting. In fact, low-angle shooting can bring visual impact to the audience. You may wish to refer to the following low-angle shooting techniques to see if you can bring new feelings to your photography.

Photography: Red Rose Exile

Look at the world from a low angle

Low-angle shooting is not purely bottom-up, but shooting the subject close to the ground at a horizontal angle, which can also be regarded as a kind of low-angle shooting.

Squat or get down, hand-held shooting, has been able to meet the shooting needs in most cases.

Of course, you can also pose some small fresh poses, like the picture below, which is cool.

Need less? You can put the camera on the ground. Do you need a backswing? Adjust the elevation, just pad a little thing.

Photography: mikebaird

Flexible thinking about shooting angle

The significance of taking a low angle as the shooting angle is not to encourage people to shoot at a low angle blindly, but to consider shooting at a low angle outside the daily angle to diversify the photographic works. For example, when shooting children and animals, you can try to put down your body and shoot images at his/her level, so that the audience can see the world from his/her perspective.

Photography: Garyon

Be patient in framing and composition.

When shooting at a low angle, it is difficult to find and compose a picture through the viewfinder if you use a general digital camera. The result is that you can only try the wrong shot, which will undoubtedly test your patience. If your camera is equipped with Live View real-time display function and rotating screen, it will be easier to shoot.

First take a good photo, pick up the camera, have a rough look at the composition, and think about how to adjust the shooting angle. Then put one down in the blind shot, pick it up and adjust it again.

This is a good exercise for your blind shot and picture control. Maybe a blessing in disguise is a blessing in disguise.

How's it going? Have you found this comforting reason?

Using the characteristics of wide-angle lens

The wide-angle lens has a wide viewing angle and can accommodate more scenes; In addition, the wide-angle lens has obvious perspective deformation, and the object close to the lens is larger, and vice versa. You can take advantage of the characteristics of wide-angle lens to shoot images with rich scenery and exaggerated effects. In addition, the wide-angle image can also facilitate the shooting of post-processing images, for example, the subject can still remain intact after cutting due to the correction level.

? Photography: Andrew Kudrin

Keep the lens level

Sometimes it is difficult to get the picture level accurately, because you may not be able to view it directly when shooting. You can add an external level to the camera. Generally, an external level can be added to the flash hot boots of the camera. In addition, if your digital camera is equipped with an electronic level, you may wish to use it more. Of course, images can also be processed by computer, but it takes a lot of time.

Handle image exposure carefully.

Exposure should be considered when shooting at low angles with the sky as the background.

When the light is very strong, you need to consider reducing the light ratio; In the absence of relevant equipment to reduce the light ratio, you must accept a large light ratio, make choices according to the needs of the picture, and adjust the exposure.

For example, if your photo wants to highlight the beautiful blue sky and white clouds, you can consider reducing the exposure compensation, and it doesn't matter if the foreground is dark; If you want to highlight the beautiful foreground scenery, let the sky be slightly exposed.

In order to highlight the flowers, it doesn't matter if the sky is slightly exposed.

Photography: Roberto Verzo

Control the aperture and focus to highlight the theme.

Aperture can control the depth of field; The focus can determine the clear position of the image. The flexible cooperation of the two, coupled with appropriate composition, helps to highlight the main body of the work.