Why is my model looking short?

[thapapawan]

I need help with making my model look tall. I have seen so many images of girls with 5 feet look taller and leaner. Whenever I shoot with any angle (eye level, waist level, lens tilt) all the models look shorter even they are 5'8". I use Sigma Art 50mm | Canon 5DMiii.

Is it about focal length/distance or do I always have to crouch down to the ground level?

Please help!

 

[Ysarex]

Show us photos.

Joe

 

[Derrel]

Keep the back of the camera parallel with the subject, and at lower level than their eye-level, and lower than your normal eye-level.

If you shoot with a short-ish lens, like a 50mm, and you stand up straight and tall, you will be angling the camera downward a few degrees, espcially, especially on a 5-foot-tal person!!!, and your standing model will have a larger upper body and a smaller waist-to-feet appearance. This becomes worse, and worse, and worse, the shorter the focal length used, and the closer the camera is positioned to the person.

A huge number of people do not understand this camera-handling fundamental, and shoot lots of things like wedding formals, groups, and so on, with the camera at THEIR EYE-level...which leads to this not-quite-optimal rendering of people.

We had some photo examples of this posted the day before yesterday. As Ysarex asks: show us photos.

You might very well be shooting from too close to the person, which can render unflattering perspective. Perspective is based on camera-to-subject distance.