When you have discovered a scene..or a thing..or a person you want to photograph, take your time, if you can, getting the right angle…or perspective.

Do you want a low or a high angle?  Take your time if you can… to decide which angle you want. The beauty of the digital camera is that you can shoot as many different angles you want, see what you have, and delete them if you wish.

We with film cameras have to take more time to decide which angle  we want…and them maybe take one or two photos of each angle.

Low angles give you a great perspective.  Even lie on the ground, if need be, to get a ground level view of the scene. Have something close in the foreground to give you a greater depth into the photo.

A wide angle lens…or move your zoom lens to the widest angle possible, will give you a greater depth of field and more depth into the photo.  More on that later in a different blog.

The main thing is to practice, practice until you can do all of this automatically. Let it become second nature to you.  None of the photographs here are at ground level, you get the idea of this blog.

I have included four photographs from our recent trip to Prague, the Czech Republic. The first photograph I simply call the  “Street Scene.” Here again, the higher angle takes us pass the “do not enter” signs, down the street to the building in the background. The distant people in the scene are almost lost by the size of the buildings.

The next photo is a high angle looking down a walkway through a wrought iron gate. We almost miss seeing the man as the scene takes our eyes through the gate to the “Caffeterria” sign.

The Doorway is taken inside a countryward. The lower angle takes us along the old cobblestone driveway, and out the door to the street scene beyond.

The last is St. Vitus Cathedral in the Castle Square where a very ow camera angle captures part of an entrance hall way and gives a unique prospective to the rose window in of the church.

All of these photos were taken with a wide angle lens to give a more dramatic depth to the scenes.