Perspective

Lets talk about perspective! One of the biggest mistakes budding photogs make is perspective. Okay, lets say you are on a photo competition with a few friends who are into photography. You come upon a scene or something that is photo worthy. All of you have similar cameras and are equally novice photogs. So naturally all of your images are going to be equally good. Whats the point in having an equally good image. You want to stand out above the others right, you do want to win the competition don't you? If not you can stop reading now and go on producing average images. Okay you do want to win, well this isn't a guarantee that you will win but it is a guarantee that your images will be different or above average. Take the above image for instance. I could have just walked up and took a photo of the flowers standing and looking down at them. It would have been a pretty image. I actually did take an image looking down at the flowers but I knew it could be better if I had a different perspective to shoot from. So I did what most novice photogs don't do, I laid on my stomach and took the photo from under the flowers. This gives the image a much more dramatic feel. So remember when you are shooting that the most common perspective or angle that you are viewing your image from isn't always the best. Try and find several different perspectives or angles to shoot your subject from. Then pick the one that is most dramatic or unique to use in the competition.