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Assignment: Change The Perspective

A change in perspective can make an ordinary picture into something much different. By taking your picture of an ordinary, everyday object from an angle we don’t usually see, you can radically change your picture and make that ordinary, everyday object far more interesting. Take a look at this picture:

http://picasaweb.google.com/WolfishMusings/WolfishMusingsPictures#5281529010255158002

I took this shot in the salt marsh near Marine Park. This plant is only about a foot and a half tall. I could have shot downward at it, but it would have just looked like an ordinary bushy plant. We see those all the time… they’re boring and uninteresting. To take this shot, however, I laid down on the ground under the plant and shot upwards. Aside from creating the effect that the plant is some tall tree, it also makes the picture far more interesting.

Another example is this picture:

http://picasaweb.google.com/WolfishMusings/WolfishMusingsPictures#5278790580370193394

We’ve all seen shots of the Brooklyn Bridge before… but not many people shoot it from the underside. I took this shot while on a Circle Line boat around Manhattan. By shooting the subject from a different angle, the picture (IMHO) is far more interesting.

This is something you can do with ANY camera — you don’t need a fancy SLR to do this. Go out, find a subject and take a picture… but take it from a different angle to make it more interesting. Show us your subject in a way we don’t usually see it. Then come back and post the pictures. 🙂

The Wolf