Take better photos – change your perspective and angles
This could be a game, your challenge, your homework. A way to open your mind and maybe escape from a routine. Basically, the idea is to get out of your comfort zone and force yourself to do things differently, to think differently, to question yourself... If you are the type of photographer that takes almost all its photos standing up facing your subject then this video is for you!
Take your camera, a few lenses, if you are game take only one... head to your next photoshoot avoid shooting standing up. You have the opportunity to show the world in a different way. Stop making boring photos, tell a story, send a message... you want to make a powerful, epic picture? Get down, lay on the floor, and shoot from the ground.
5D Mark III + Canon 24 - 70mm mark II f2.8L 1/320s at f5 ISO125 - 24mm Valentina Pierini (Rome)
I do this a lot because I like how some of my performers look powerful from that angle. Little bonus tip, shoot with a wide-angle lens to exaggerate that feeling. The viewer gets inside that intimate space, we feel the action... this works great with action sports photography:
5D Mark III + Canon 24 - 70mm mark II f2.8L 1/200s at f6.3 ISO100 - 24mm Katerina Ristic (Le Havre)
5D Mark III + Canon 24 - 70mm mark II f2.8L 1/200s at f7.1 ISO200 - 24mm Kevin Jacob (Lyon)
Let's go further, let's go down a little bit more... how? The easiest way is to shoot on stairs or to shoot from a place somehow lower than where your model is standing. With stairs, you have incredible lines you can use easily for your composition and you can try several different heights.
5D Mark III + Canon 24 - 70mm mark II f2.8L 1/400s at f3.5 ISO125 - 59mm Dafne Lugui Barbosa (Toulouse)
5D Mark III + Canon 24 - 70mm mark II f2.8L 1/200s at f13 ISO100 - 24mm Vanesa Garcia (Montreal)
I started experimenting this years ago like on these photoshoots made during my stay in Montreal in 2015:
5D Mark III + Canon 24 - 70mm mark II f2.8L 1/200s at f10 ISO100 - 24mm Eva Kolarova (Montreal)