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BEXHILL-ON-SEA, EAST SUSSEX B+W

This unusual abstract was created by sitting on the floor directly beneath an art deco spiral staircase in the De La Warr Pavilion and looking

straight up. The ball in the centre of the frame is a glass light shade at the top of the stairs.

Canon EOS 5D MKIII with 17-40mm lens at 17mm, 1/60sec at f/18, ISO 800

because with everything in frame quite a

distance from the camera, you don’t need

lots of depth of field and can shoot with

the lens wide open if necessary and still

record everything in sharp focus.

Something else you’ll notice when

shooting from high viewpoints is that

patterns present themselves more

readily – tables and chairs outside cafés,

car parks full of vehicles, crowds of

people in busy streets and squares, the

tiles and slates on rooftops – patterns

are everywhere, and much easier to

spot when you’re looking down. Use a

telezoom lens to make the most of them,

zooming-in to fill the frame and exclude

unwanted detail.

NAMIBRAND, NAMIBIA

Aerial photography provides a totally different perspective on the world below and allows you

to see things that aren’t obvious or even visible at ground level – such as the pattern of

‘fairy circles’ seen here. I took the shot from a hot air balloon.

Canon EOS 5D MKII with 24-70mm lens at 24mm, 1/4000sec at f/3.5, ISO 400

‘Climb on to a chair or wall

and the change in viewpoint

can be enough to make a

diff erence – especially when

shooting landscapes.’

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