Day 260: Garden in the Autumn

2026-10-24Hello!In Central Park, I walked by this row of white flowers.This was going to be one of the experimental dizzy shots, taken five minutes after the vertigo shot that I posted already. But I couldn't think of anything creative, so I snapped this composition and moved on.I've heard somewhere that the camera height should match the eye level at which I first encountered the subject. I believe it to be true, so let me explain.A plushie, for example, should be photographed on floor level like a toddler, not from above at current height. A collection of stuffed animals packed into the corner of a room, accumulated later in life, can be shot from a higher angle to reflect that age.Height and angle can convey emotion. I can make people intimidating by shooting up from below (see current presidential images in the US, for example).I try to keep this in mind when photographing subjects. There's also the pressure of creating something original; if every photographer shot every subject…