Digital Home Thoughts: The Different Angles When Taking a Photo

"As a professional photographer, I get scores of different assignments each year. The first thought that goes through my mind at the beginning of each one is: "What can I do that will make my pictures unique?" Here's the answer I came up with for one recent assignment. The assignment was to create seven billboard size images for Frontier Field, a Minor League Baseball Park right next to Kodak's corporate offices. These are not hard sell billboards, but are generally community related themes about Rochester and the people who live here. This year's theme was "Kids of Summer." Well, it was easy to come up with a list of things kids do during the summer months and then fairly easy to identify seven good ones, but now "how do I make them unique?"



I remember that we posted an article here a few days ago where reversing a lens on your SLR could get you a macro effect on your photos. That was basically adding a unique touch to your photos, and this article is essentially talking about the same type of thing. Here, the photographer gets an excellent, almost fish-eye stype of effect by taking photos with a very wide angle lens from a really low or high angle. My widest angle lens is only a 28mm so I don't think I will be able to try this as nicely, but for those of you with 18mm lenses (or around that range) should let us know how this works out for you.