Landscape photography tip: Choose the right perspective

Thursday 27 April 2023, 14:07 by Nando Harmsen | 2,933 views | 0 comments

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A good perspective is important for a landscape photo. You immediately think of a bird's-eye view or a worm's-eye view. But it doesn't always have to be that extreme. Even half a metre makes a big difference.

By choosing a different perspective, you view the world from a different angle. A bird's-eye view shows the landscape from a high viewpoint. A worm's-eye view lets you look at the landscape as if you were very small.

Perspective also allows you to manipulate the division of areas in a photo. You can use it to change the vertical distance between a foreground and background. A low viewpoint brings the foreground and background closer together. A high viewpoint does the opposite.

By choosing a high perspective, the horizon and the lower light reflections are not distributed nicely. Look at it through your eyelashes to see how the light and dark are distributed. The balance is too far down.
In general, we quickly tend to think in extremes. It is a low perspective or a high one. But what about everything in between? Look closely at the photo above and see how the perspective has determined the distance between the foreground and background. Pay attention to the division of areas and how the light is distributed. Then look at the photo below.

By choosing a low perspective, both bands of light are brought closer together. The top and bottom have an almost equally wide dark band. The photo is more balanced.
The difference in perspective is easy to see. By choosing a lower viewpoint, the division of areas is better balanced. The difference in perspective wasn't even that great to achieve this result. The first photo was taken from a height of one and a half metres, the second from a height of one metre.

Never think in extremes when it comes to perspective. Even half a metre can make a difference. Pay attention to the division of areas and balance in a photo. You'll notice that the photo is much more pleasant to look at.

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