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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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