From the course: Photography Foundations: Composition

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Point of view

Point of view

From the course: Photography Foundations: Composition

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Point of view

So you're out shooting. It's going well. Your eyes are really seeing things, and lot of things are capturing your attention, and maybe it goes something like this. You think wow! Look at the thing over there. And you turn, you point your camera and you take a picture. And you do that for the rest of the day. And when you come home, all of the images you will have shot will have been taken from about this level, and usually looking either down or maybe a little up. In other words, they'll all have exactly the same point of view. Now if you think about it, the odds that when you see something interesting and that you are absolutely at the perfect height to shoot that particular thing from that location, the odds are that are pretty slim. Point of view is a critical compositional decision that you really need to be actively thinking about when you're shooting. If you walk through the world just shooting like this all the time, you are going to have fairly uniform somewhat-boring shots…

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