Photography tips with Otago Daily Times illustrations editor Stephen Jaquiery.
Act like a child to photograph a child and get down on the ground to their level (pictured left).
This will usually put the child more at ease, give you a more interesting perspective and also make it easier to communicate with your subject.
Shooting from a low angle is also a good technique to tidy up a background.
If you photograph a car from tarseal level a lot of distracting clutter in the background is cut from the image.
Likewise, if you photographed the car from up a ladder you can also tidy the background by having just the road as the backdrop.
