QuickStart Guide to Documenting Your Family: Task 2 - Choose the Right Perspective
I am a quite small person, while my husband is very tall and I often say that we live in two different worlds. Of course it is just a joke, but it really makes a huge difference from what level you are taking a photograph: I almost always try to get higher when I am taking pictures of a tall person and I almost always get down when I am taking pictures of a child. There are some exceptions of course, but in 99 % of cases you should be at your model's level.
First of all being at the level of your subject keeps the proportions right. If you stand and take a picture of a child who is close to you, her head will look bigger and her body and legs will look shorter than they actually are.
Second, a photograph looks much more intimate if taken from your child's point of view, because it shows how the world appears to her.
First of all being at the level of your subject keeps the proportions right. If you stand and take a picture of a child who is close to you, her head will look bigger and her body and legs will look shorter than they actually are.
Second, a photograph looks much more intimate if taken from your child's point of view, because it shows how the world appears to her.
I hope this was helpful! The next part is coming soon!
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