Point of view photography involves capturing photos from angles other than one's normal eye level perspective. It can involve shooting from above, below, or the perspective of an animal. Examples shown include photos taken from a bird's eye view, ant's perspective, looking up at a mushroom, shooting a wedding ceremony from the ground, and an animal-level shot of a duck drinking. The document provides additional ideas for subjects to shoot from unusual perspectives like trees, popcorn, benches or garbage cans.

1. WHAT IS POINT OF
VIEW PHOTOGRAPHY?
Mary Kate O’Connell
February 13, 2013

2. The Essence of Point of View Photography
• Point of view photography is simply the art of capturing a photo
from a view that you wouldn’tnormally look at. Basically, it is
moving your camera from your eye level view to a completely
different view. Maybe a photographer would take pictures looking
down on something, peering up from the ground, or from the eye
view of an animal. It doesn’t matter which angle you shoot
from, just as long as it is not from a typical angle. Spice things up a
bit!

3. What Does Point of View Photography Look Like?
This picture shows a birds-eye view of the
Golden Gate Bridge in San
Francisco, California. It’s really
cool, because you can see all of the tiny
little cars, and even a sailing boat in the
water.

4. What Does Point of View Photography Look
Like?
This picture demonstrates an
ant’s view. This shows what
these shoes look like from the
ground. This point of view
makes the shoes look big and
monster-like. Imagine being a
small ant, and having to see
that!

5. What Does Point of View Photography Look
Like?
This shot is amazing! The
view is from the ground
looking up. This
mushroom looks so
massive. The way the sun
peers out from behind
adds a cool, beautiful
glowing effect.

6. What Does Point of View Photography Look
Like?
This is a pretty cool
shot. It shows what a
wedding ceremony is
like from the ground.
You can see the
aisle, alter, bride, groo
m, and even the flower
pedals.

7. What Does Point of View Photography Look
Like?
This picture is so cool. I
love how you can
clearly see how the
duck is drinking from
the pond. This an
animal level shot.

8. What Does Point of View Photography Look
Like?
This picture is kind of disgusting, but
really cool. It is a view from the height
of a gross spider.

9. Hmm… What Could I shoot?!
Ideas:
• Trees
• Popcorn
• Bench
• Garbage Can
• Hair
• Vending Machine
• Food
• Shoes

10. Works Cited
• Hall, Catherine. Golden Gate Bridge. Digital image. Catherinehall.net. Catherinehall.net, n.d.
Web. 14 Feb. 2013. <http://www.catherinehall.net/ blog/wp-
content/uploads/2011/10/DavidSanger-Uncommon- Value-10-12-11-2.jpg>.
• Pink Converse. Digital image. Flickr. N.p., n.d. Web. 14 Feb. 2013. <http://
farm6.staticflickr.com/5265/5678399608_efa073efc8_z.jpg>.
• Mushroom. Digital image. Pxleyes.com. Pxleyes.com, n.d. Web. 14 Feb. 2013.
<http://www.pxleyes.com/images/contests/ground%20level/fullsize/ground
%20level_4c529f1a6acd5.jpg>.
• Moore, Jay. Bride and Groom. Digital image. Jaymoorephotography.com.
Jaymoorephotography.com, n.d. Web. 14 Feb. 2013. <http://
jaymoorephotography.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/
IMG_5641.jpg>.
• Williams, Scott. Wood Duck Drinking. Digital image. Scottwilliamsgallery.com.
Scottwilliamsgallery.com, n.d. Web. 14 Feb. 2013. <http://
www.scottwilliamsgallery.com/Birds/Ducks/i-XLZSNnG/1/L/wood%20duck
%20drinking%20%281%20of%201%29-L.jpg>
• Spider. Digital image. N.p., n.d. Web. 14 Feb. 2013. <http://farm4.staticflickr.com /
3581/3362963793_ba69c79a87_z.jpg>.