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HAVANA, CUBA

Architecture is an ideal subject for low angle photography – crane your neck to capture the view

above your head or place your camera on the ground facing directly up. This image shows the

beautiful interior of Havana’s National Theatre, still immaculate after 60 years of neglect.

Canon EOS 5D MkIII with 17-40mm lens at 17mm, 1/125sec at f/11, ISO 200

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f heights aren’t your bag, then maybe

low viewpoints will be more suitable. No

worries about falling off when your feet

are on terra firma – or some other part

of your body!

Some photographers seem to spend half

their life stretched out on their belly or back

in an attempt to get a different view. For

nature photographers it’s often unavoidable

if the subject is low to the ground, but for

any kind of urban photography getting

down low and shooting from a worm’s eye

view can produce fantastic results.

Get down low and look up the front

of a tall building to create dramatic

converging verticals – the wider the lens,

the stronger the effect. Do the same in a

flowerbed, using your widest lens from

close range to capture the blooms against

the sky – daffodils and tulips are ideal for

this, and should be showing themselves

soon. Telephoto lenses aren’t so useful

when shooting from low viewpoints as

they magnify the subject and compress

perspective, so the sense of being low

down isn’t so obvious. But wideangle

lenses make a meal of it by stretching

HAVANA, CUBA

I noticed this huge old flyover while wandering along the Malecon in Havana. Shooting from beneath it with an ultra-wide lens produced

a dramatic perspective, while exposing several frames then merging them with HDR software allowed me to record the fantastic

patterns in the weathered concrete.

Canon EOS 1DS MKIII with 17-40mm lens at 127mm, various exposures at f/13, ISO 100

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