High Angle Challenge Ideas
This week’s challenge is high-angles. Take part in the challenge at http://takeaphotochallenge.com/2018-01-28-high-angle-challenge/
Hopefully this is fairly self explanatory – a high-angle shot is a photo taken from a higher angle. This means that you need to get on a chair, get to a higher floor, use a ladder or some other manner to get physically higher than you usually take photos and take a photo, looking down. This could be, for a smaller object, just standing over it.
The vast majority of the photos that we all take are from our own eye level at the objects that we are looking at. Changing the angle will change your perspective. The objects closer to the camera will appear larger relative to the objects that are further away. With people, their forehead will appear larger and chin will be diminished. Tops of buildings will appear larger and so on.
For this challenge, the higher the angle, the better. You can upload up to 3 photos. I challenge you to make one of those three straight down and the others at angles.
Notice what it does to shadows. Obviously that differs by the light source. One of the top photos from the National Geographic was an overhead shot of camels where the shapes that you see are actually the shadows.
I love how the high angle tends to flatten objects out. For example, the image of the crab below doesn’t flattened out the crab and since the sun was overhead, there’s very few shadows.
Just being high is not enough. The photo below, for example, is relatively high but it’s not shot at a downward angle.
Jump in and join the fun with the challenge.