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Varying your vantage points

Varying your vantage points

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Varying your vantage points

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- [Steve] I think there's a tendency for photographers to shoot from kind of a comfortable place, which makes sense. Standing positions, certain distance from your subject. Hi, I'm Steve Simon, the Passionate Photographer, and welcome to a brand new edition of Photo Critique of the Week. And this week we're going to look at a few photos that have taken a bit of a different vantage point. And as kind of an idea for you to kind of remember to kind of get outside your sort of standard procedure for photography and move in, go down, go up, and move around and try and find a unique angle that offers the viewer a kind of a different view of a similar subject. Which ultimately I think is going to make your picture stronger. So here's an example where this beautiful woman in Havana, I noticed and obviously I'm really close to her, so I took a few shots of her, but then I noticed her beautiful hands and her jewelry and the nails and I thought, that might make a stronger image than just the…

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