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Look for the low-angle view

Look for the low-angle view - iPhone Tutorial

From the course: Mobile Photography Weekly

Look for the low-angle view

- Hey everybody, Sean here. Greetings from Nevada City, California. I'm at the Inn Town Campground. And I've been experimenting with shooting down low today. And the reason I want to bring this up is that so often with our camera phones, you know, most pictures I think are taken from a standing height. We see something interesting, we just raise the phone, take a shot and move on. But if you get down really low, the cool thing about that is you can see things that you don't normally see. And I'm talking about really low like having the camera as close as possible to the ground. Now, let me just go through some of the shots that I have been taken here. So as you can see here, I'm down as low as I could get there. I got the nice backlight of the sunlight on the moss, the railroad ties and the train tracks. And you know I just started looking around. I was trying my aim here. My goal for this project was to get as low as possible and find backlit details, details that you might often…

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