6. About The Point Of View's Selection.

Selecting the point of view from which you see and photograph your subject does not only make a difference in your main subject's appearance and the ways in which it is perceived by the picture-viewers, but it also determines the relation between all other elements in your picture with the main subject, and all of the elements together with the edges of the picture area's frame.

When an eye-level point of view is commonly used by the novices to photography, and produces a view that is unobtrusive in appearance, a slight change in camera angle down or up, makes a difference not only in a sense of the noticeability of your main subject and surrounding it secondary elements, becoming more noticeable, but also in the filling conveyed by the photographed at a lower or higher angle subjects as in these photos shot with Kodachrome 64 film used in Minolta x-700 set at 1/120 and f.5.6 apperture.

Looking straight up at your subject, or in other words, having a low point of view, conveys an atmosphere of grandour, mistery and honor, often commanding respect for the subject. While looking straight down at it, tends to flatten a space below, minimizing your subjects and reducing them to their often simple graphic elements, and thus, creating a certain pattern among them as in the pimage below.