Panasonic Lumix Camera Review

You're hiking straight through a National Forrest and all things seems designed on a grand scale. Huge trees reach to the sky. The surrounding mountains look like they could be home to the Gods. It's very easy to get over whelmed and feel kind of small. At times like this you need to be in tune with what you feel. If you feel small, try shooting small.

Too many habitancy spend their time seeing up and far away. Take time to see where you are. Be different, try seeing down occasionally. A mushroom or a particular flower could be missed if you only focus on what is in front of you. In the eyes of the creator, even the small things are all part of the grand design.

Most photographers only take photos from their perspective (height wise). This is a big mistake. If you are a photographer that is anywhere from five to six feet tall and look down what do you see? You see small things that are distorted because of where you are seeing from.

Let's take a mushroom for example; from above you see the top of a small round dome. Think of the most spicy construction you have ever seen. If you saw it from directly above, would it still seem interesting? Now if you get down on the same level as the mushroom, you can see the farranging shape of the dome, the stem, and how the two interact. Assuredly more interesting, but aren't you still missing something? Try getting down on your belly and shooting up at the mushroom. Now you can see the dark fins that make up the dome. You see lines, shape, and contrast. Your subject has equilibrium and interaction. You have gone from just seeing a small round dome, to seeing the whole structure.

The same could be said of a small flower. Everybody shoots flowers seeing level into the bloom. Have you ever seen one from behind and up? contain the stem, the leaves, the sepals (those exiguous green petals behind the flower). Capture the texture of the small hair like things surface the stem. See the moisture of early morning dew as it runs down the length of the plant. Rather than seeing at the petals, try seeing straight through them. Most flower petals are approximately penetrative if they are backlit by the sun.

If you feel overwhelmed with the huge things in life, think how a worm must feel. What most habitancy just walk on by; can feel just as grand and awe spicy from his perspective. If you want a true photographic challenge, try spending a day shooting from a worms' eye view. Regardless of size, you will still find the things that make your subject spicy are the basic elements of design. Lines, shape, contrast, and equilibrium are only a few of the things that can open new worlds to the unseen eye. If you are seeing for new photographic insight, remember the worms' eye view.