Take beautiful travel photos in different perspective
These are 3 of my favourite travel photos taken from different point of view. Sometimes I just did not feel like shooting what everybody is shooting toward a popular destination. While ‘Standard perspective view’ photos are important when introducing a destination, these photo shooting angle could also ruin the attractiveness of a landmark by being too dull and common, which are seen everyday from a newspaper, a magazine or from a friend’s photo album.
In order to make a popular destination stands out from the rest, try capturing hot tourist spots from a different angle of view. Let me know if you could tell where these places are…
1) Looking up from below the Triumphal Arch, Paris. From this angle of view, I realised Triumphal Arch is actually a monument rather than a giant arch. This 50m high monument was built in 1830s, to honour those who fought for France during the Napoleonic Wars. Those names inscribed on the inside walls are French generals involved in wars. Shooting from below unveil the unique perspective of this Paris icon.
2) The gigantic entrance door architrave of the Basilica di Santa Maria del Fiore (better known as Duomo), Florence. This famous tourists’ spot of Florence attracts millions of visitors each year because of its special white, green and pink coloured marble facade. Spending over 140 years to complete the structure in 15th century, there are many more features to be explored by visitors. One of them is the fantastic stone carving art appeared on the architrave of its huge entrance doorway. Looking up close and you will discover the greatness of carving art in ancient time. Shooting up with an Ultra Wide Angle lens made an extensive view of the doorway.
3) What about this? Figured out where this photo was shot? No? There are 248 of these huge over 10m high columns lining up to form the border of an elliptical square. Seldom people walked in here to take photos. Most of the travelers shoot its outlook where 140 over lifesize saints crown the cornice of roof on top of these natural stone columns. Now you know where. Yes. It’s better known as the St. Peter’s Square, in Vatican city.
All the above photos was taken on my travel to Western Europe. The strongest element of these photos is Line, the combination of straight and curve lines in different degree. Try shooting popular landmarks from a different angle of view and the results could be unexpectedly remarkable. 🙂 – Travel Feeder, your ultimate travel photo blog
About The Author
Cecil Lee
The author is an avid traveler and photography hobbyist who loves to share with others his travel and photo-taking experience in many popular tourist destinations around Europe, Asia and Australasia. Read the exciting stories with many photos captured on his journeys.
