An Angle used in wedding photography can make a good photo, a great one. At Sterling Photography, we are happy to share secret little photo tips you can use all your life. This week we are telling you about the use of amazing and unique Angles in wedding photography.
The Most Used Angle for a Ceremony is Eye Level.
The Angle of a shot simply means the position from which a photographer takes a photo.
For example, a photographer can’t get the same image twice if he photographs it lying on his stomach as opposed to standing on a staircase above it.
In fact the 2 photos will be radically different from each other.
Your photographer’s position, standing, kneeling, or crouching, has a powerful effect on the photograph being taken.
Angles: You Might Not Know What They Are, But You Like Them!
When we look at a series of wedding shots, we sometimes see that an inexperienced photographer has taken every single shot on one level—the level of his or her own eye.
That is the safe shot, the ‘for-the-record” shot, –but once that shot is taken, there is so much more to see!
At Sterling Photography, we believe in telling wedding day stories by using a variety of different angles.
Angles: Eye-Level Angle is for Recording Moments in the “Safe” Zone:
It is true that sometimes the best angle from which a photographer shoots is at the eye level. Furthermore, there are parts of the wedding day when we do not want to move around, change position and cause a distraction.
Although the eye-level angle is a standard for some moments, there are multiple photographic opportunities to utilize a variety of different angles.
Angles: Different Angles Show Different Moods
A creative photographer must choose different levels for his or her position behind the lens: Orlando photographer R.J.Sterling gets a work-out. He might crouch, sit, kneel, stand on a chair or stand on steps.
You might catch him almost laying down to photograph wedding party children on garden grass or sandy beach at the reception —all of these positions are movements to change the angle of a shot.
In fact, the difference in effects made by using angles is very obvious when we photograph children. For example, towering above a 4-year-old flower girl will make her look tiny, weak and delicate.
Kneeling down to photograph her will bring your eye level closer to hers, into a more engaging space. This increases the dramatic effect of her presence, mood and expression as well as her size. Now she looks like your equal.
At the wedding reception in a garden, laying down on the ground for a “worm’s eye view” of her will give you yet a third different perspective. In such a shot we would see what she is experiencing in the moment–her world at her size, and she is the master of it.
Now, let’s re-capp each of the main angles in a photographer’s repetoire.
1. Angle Magic–The Bird’s Eye View and Shooting From A High Angle:
The Ultimate Bird’s Eye View: A Magical Venue
On the one hand, The bird’s eye view and The High Angle: Shooting down onto an important wedding day prop like the bouquet will preserve a memory of details that are too small to notice on the Wedding Day.
On the other hand instead of making a small thing larger, we can also use the Bird’s Eye View to show the grand scale of a wedding venue by shooting it from high above it.
Never before in wedding photography history could brides obtain so high a bird’s-eye view as with today’s technology! With special arrangements, a Sterling Photography Drone can fly over your wedding day site to provide you with a dreamy view you could never see with your own eyes unless you had an airplane.
2. Angle Amazement–The Worm’s Eye View–and Shooting from a Low Angle:
Worm’s Eye View of a Couple’s New Treasures!
Shooting straight up or at an upward angle adds impact to a static object. Shooting from a low angle can also add size and grandness to any scene.
A small garden can look quite large. A pond can be a lake.
In another use of the upward angle, a photographer can make an aisle look really long and grand from the appropriate position, the way it feels to every entering or exiting princess bride.
Using a low angle stretches out the exit hall and adds depth.
With experience, using different angles becomes part of a photographer’s style, which is exactly the way brides like it at Sterling International Photography!
