FStoppers 5 Reasons You Should Stop Shooting at Eye Level




There is a moment early in every photographer's journey when they realize that simply pointing a camera at something interesting does not automatically produce an interesting photograph. The gap between what we see with our eyes and what the camera captures can feel impossibly wide. We stand in front of a stunning landscape or a compelling portrait subject, press the shutter, and somehow the resulting image falls flat. The scene that moved us in person becomes mundane in the frame. While there are countless technical explanations for this phenomenon, one of the most overlooked culprits is deceptively simple: we are shooting from the wrong height.

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