Be selective about your viewpoint.

Points to check before taking your photo:- Have you chosen the best viewpoint/camera angle? Do you need to get in closer? Try high/low camera angles. Try landscape and portrait formats on the same subject. If you have them, try different focal length lenses/wide angle/zoom lens, which may alter the relative sizes of images or alter perspective.

	These pictures of the Liberty Monument in Nicosia, taken on holiday in Cyprus, illustrate how a change of viewpoint can add impact to a subject. This first picture was taken from near our coach, and is the type of photo that is taken by probably 90% of tourists visiting the monument.		Enlarge	Note how some of the figures are lost in the shadow area of the doorway.

	Enlarge		I needed something different that would convey the meaning of the monument more effectively Getting up close to the statues and selecting my camera angles to make the figures larger and nore impressive has created much more interesting images.

Here,(right) the figure of a woman is hidden behind the figure centre-left. Notice how by moving to the right it was possible to frame her head in the arm of the right hand figure, thus creating a more dramatic image.(below) Enlarge		Enlarge

To get this picture I had to kneel down and point the camera up at the subject. I used a 28mm wide angle lens, but a similar effect could have been achieved with any 35mm camera with a standard lens.		Enlarge

		I feel that these close-ups are much more dramatic and have greater emotional impact than the straight head on record shot of the whole monument.
					IPH