Kathy Eyster's Blog

Daisies from below  Where you place the camera to take a picture can change your photo from "regular" to dramatic. We tend to shoot most of our images from our standing height while hold the camera at eye level. This means our pictures tend to all look the same and look like many other people's images because they are all taken from the same position. But if you get the camera higher or lower than standing height, you introduce a different perspective. Here I held my point and shoot digital camera below the daisies and angled the lens so the backlit petals would stand out against the dark shaded buildings across the street. Because I couldn't see what I was shooting, I took several frames to get the final shot. Shooting from below the subject is easy if your camera has a tilt-and-swivel screen on the back. You can set the camera to "live view" so you can see the picture you're framing before you take it. And you can angle the screen so you don't have...