Tag Archives: high perspective

Urbanity Image Review #3

November 7, 2014 by mspau 4 Comments

Taken in Melbourne, August 2014. Location is Degraves Street, I think? The Flinders Street end. The only image in the collection leveraging the use of a model. Sometimes ya gotta try new things. There were a few ideas I had that were going to be much easier to realise with a more predictable set of […]

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1. Technique, 2014 Urbanity
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Changing Perspective

August 1, 2014 by mspau 7 Comments

One of the hardest things to avoid in street photography is “same same” perspective. The nature of the activity – walking around and instant opportunities – results in the photographer mostly bringing the camera up to to the eye at head height. We see the world around us, every day, at head height. We are used […]

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1. Technique
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Tilt Shift Digital Toy Camera

June 21, 2014 by mspau 0 Comments

Tilt-Shift lenses are designed to help 35mm and medium format cameras achieve the same effect as a large format field camera. The bellows of a field camera allows the photographer to tilt the lens left and right, and shift it up and down relative to the film plate. There are a whole bunch of technical […]

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2. Gear
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City Square Water Feature

June 1, 2014 by mspau 0 Comments

The City Square has a few different locations worth checking out which were covered off in this post. On the Collins St side there is a water feature that is a great background for the right subjects. I haven’t really got an image I am 100% happy with yet, but hope these location roughs do […]

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3. Locations
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360 Collins St – High Persepective

May 25, 2014 by mspau 0 Comments

After spending some time studying Fan Ho, I realised that too many of my images were captured from a consistent perspective of about 5ft 8inches – head height… Images become more interesting when they show something from a new perspective. You can read more about this and Fan Ho’s work here. Finding high or low […]

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3. Locations
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