Tuesday, January 09, 2007

The Proper Angle Makes All the Difference

I've selected these photos to show how the angle that the photographer uses can have a tremendous impact on our enjoyment of the photo. The first photo is simply pedestrian. The aggressor in the black suit looks like she would rather be selecting a different shade of eye shadow and the young lass getting worked over is doing her best impression of a wrestler in pain. The photographer is standing in the ring, pointing his camera downwards at the ladies in order to capture all of the "action."
Now this photo, of the same ladies, is an entirely different kettle of fish. The photographer is standing outside the raised ring, and is eye-level with the young lady in white. Although she is now topless, that is not what draws us in. Instead, it is the looming and dominating lady in black over the helpless loser who is thrust directly towards us. A combination of the camera's angle and that the ladies' hair obscures their faces allows us to imagine that this match is more in intense than the photo shoot most assuredly was. Just another example of why if you go to the trouble of having ladies wrestle in the ring, you should photograph them from outside the ring, just as they would be viewed by the spectators.

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