Where do I Position my Camera?

 

 

Before I continue on with this blog topic, I got my inspiration to write from the app we all know, starts with a T ends with a K, Tik Tok, I was scrolling and I came across the Photography side of my For You page, and I was genuinely interested I then started taking pictures of my own and I enjoyed it for once, and I now am a personal photography for my friends. Basically my knowledge of this comes from Tik Tok and in school learning. Anyways let's stop the delay and let's start with the angles.

 

Up, Down, Left, Right? Where does it go?

    What are Angles?

         Angles are basically the degrees that at which the camera faces, don't worry you won't need a protractor for camera angles. All you need is practice and knowledge. Now what are the different camera angles? I'm glad you probably never asked, here are some examples and explanations of each angle. By the way the 3 basic camera angles are close-up, medium shot and long shot.

        The close-up. Shot

            All you need to know about this kind of shot is that it captures the subjects. This mainly frames the face of the subject only, yes the camera is staring into the soul of the subject.

The Medium Shot

            For this one it mostly captures people chatting, usually shot from the waist up. This to me looks like the most basic shot of the camera, you know the selfie type one.

The Long Shot

    This kind of shot will show you the environment of your subject(s). It would give you a clear view of your subject's surroundings.

Let's now move on to some of the other camera angles to try out.

Low angle and High angle shot

    The low angle has the camera close to the ground and looking up at the subject. This would make people assume that your subject has a higher power.

The high angle has different uses, the camera in the high angle shot is positioned higher than the character (somewhat like a bird's eye view shot). The character may feel like it has a lower power, or it indicated that there is something huge ahead.

Over the Shoulder Shot

This shot is pretty self explanatory, the camera is behind a person and showing the character of someone else "over the shoulder" of the character in front. I you don't understand, look at Harry over there to the right.

Dutch Angle Shot

I am not really familiar with this but, from my observations, the camera is tilted a bit to one side, I suppose its used to make the viewers feel uneasy.

Long-Exposure Shot

The long exposure shot requires some practice and also needs specific camera settings to work, first you need to enable shutter priority mode or manual mode, secondly you need to set a slow shutter speed (1-30 seconds is recommended), thirdly set your camera's focus (a tripod is recommended to make it easier to keep the camera still), next use a shutter delay and lastly take your long exposure picture. Take note that the time that the camera has to stay in that position varies from 15 seconds to 15 minutes to many hours.

I hope this blog will help you starters figure out what angles you want to use for your pictures, there are more angles but these are the ones you need to know, the long-exposure shot is just extra knowledge. That's all for now, happy photography.

Written by: Sebastian Ray Galope