Name The Camera Angle?

[missbeliever]

This is a picture I took the other day. I was looking through my photos and I realized that I always take pictures at this angle, or at least I seem to naturally prefer it. I love the perspective provided when taking a picture level with a surface. It did, however, raise the question: is there an "official" name for this angle? Just curious. I can provide more for a reference if needed. And, in case someone was wondering, all of the pictures I will use were taken with my LGG3's rear facing camera.

 

[Gary A.]

I would call it eye level.

 

[Derrel]

I would name that angle "lawn tractor rearward-facing flanking angle".

 

[ronlane]

I would name that angle "lawn tractor rearward-facing flanking angle".

No Derrel, this one is the "Nothing says dutch tilt like a Deere" angle.

 

[astroNikon]

looks about 35 degrees angle.

essentially you use an angle like that to get an elongated view of an object. I do the same approx angle for cars, and a whole bunch of other things where the front of the object is closeup but I also want to get the length of the object too.

 

[Designer]

Why would you not simply call it oblique?

 

[missbeliever]

It's come to my intention that maybe that pic isn't the best example. This one is exactly what I meant.

What I'm talking about is how the angle follows the length of the fence.

PS, I thought Dutch tilt was just tilting the angle diagonally?

 

[astroNikon]

you mean ... a leading line ?

 

[missbeliever]

you mean ... a leading line ?

Yes! That's exactly what I was talking about! Thank you. I've been photographing for a while now, but I have little to no education on terms and techniques. Now I know what my favorite technique is, and again, thanks!

 

[astroNikon]

==> Glossary of Photography Terms

normally a leading line leads you to the main object in the photograph.

 

[Designer]

The term you're looking for is "perspective".

Here you go: MoMA The Collection Perspective

and here: Glossary of Art Terms J - P

and of course here: ArtLex Art Dictionary

perspective - The technique artists use to project an illusion of the three-dimensional world onto a two-dimensionalsurface. Perspective helps to create a sense of depth — of receding space. Fundamental techniques used to achieve perspective are: controlling variation between sizes of depicted subjects, overlapping some of them, and placing those that are on the depicted ground as lower when nearer and higher when deeper. In addition, there are three major types of perspective: aerial perspective, herringbone perspective, and linear perspective.

 

[missbeliever]

Thanks everyone, this has been a very informative question, it seems.

 

[fjrabon]

I think the term you're actually looking for is axial perspective. leading lines don't have to be dead on like this. Leading lines can really be from most any point in the photo. Perspective is right, but this is a very certain type of perspective.

Axial refers to when the camera's view is direct on axis of something. You can have axial lighting, that's when the lighting source is directly behind you and is pointing directly at where the camera is also pointing. A ring flash is an example of axial lighting. Shooting when the sun is very low and directly behind you is another type of axial lighting.

Axial perspective is when there is a line that the camera's perspective very closely follows from origin to terminus. Perspective as a term can refer to many variations of perspective, the strongest being axial.