How to use different angles to take better photos

It may not seem like a big deal at the time, but making sure that you’re positioned at the eye level of your subject can make the world of a difference. Even if your subject is laying flat on the ground and too relaxed to get up (like our pretty cat below) go ahead and lie on your tummy, on the ground to take your shot. You’ll capture a shot that’s immediately engaging. keep in mind that if you do have to get down low,, insure that your composition is level (tip 5 explains this further)!

Create different effects in terms of your subject’s length by varying the distance between yourself and your subject . To give your subject length, approach your subject and take a shot from below; to reduce length, step away to take your shot. This trick is often used by professional photographers working in the fashion industry. What’s fun about this tip is that you have the freedom to decide how tall/high you wish your subject to appear.

You can make anything look dramatically bigger in a photo, just crouch low or place your camera at ground level before you take a shot. Travel brochures use this trick often to make hotel rooms look bigger. You too can take advantage! Aside from showing how luxuriously large your budget hotel room actually was, taking such photos will allow you to capture details of your surroundings in more detail.

As you’re taking a picture, position yourself so that your subject appears off centre within the frame of your shot. Not only will this allow you to capture the background more, you’ll also ideally place your subject to engage with viewers more naturally. This technique is known as the ‘rule of thirds’, which identifies points of interest that lie in intersecting lines that divide the fame of a photo in thirds.