Perspective

One of the most important aspects of composition is perspective. This normally involves the photographer in moving about to change angles or viewpoint on the subject. There is a great scene in the movie Big Country when two men are having a fist fight out on the prairie, and the camera is moved back with a wide angle perspective to show how small they are in that great landscape. That is perspective. Here is a Stanly County example, the horse sculpture in the Locust town center. The first shot is at almost eye level. For the second shot I put the camera almost on the ground to create the sense of a much more commanding horse.

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