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Choose your vantage point: be selective in deciding where to stand--it can determine what your photographs say to viewers.(photocritique)

Publication: Communication World
Publication Date: 01-JAN-08
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

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Photographers use their vantage point to create a perspective that expresses an idea, tells a story and draws the viewer into an image. The beginner or formula-bound descriptive photographer will always take the most predictable camera position: 8 to 10 feet away from the subject with camera...

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...held at eye level. Photographic communicators, on the other hand, will often get down, move up or go entirely around the subject to find the position that creates the most meaning.

Bob Gilka, former director of photography for National Geographic magazine, once said that when he reviewed a photographer's portfolio, he would look first for evidence of a "willingness to bend." Where we stand surely determines what...

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