Tiny Worlds an Intro–Viewpoints
The phrase "point of view" in photography/filmmaking simply means the position from which the camera sees the scene. The POV shot is just one of many camera framing options. Point of view is the perspective from which a story is told. There are three basic points of view shot that are used in photography/filmmaking:
There are also three major POV used in literary which could be helpful for photographers/filmmakers too:
1.First Person Point of View (I) - we are seeing events through the eyes of the character telling the story.
2.Second Person Point of View (You) - In second person, the narrator is speaking to you.
3.Third Person Point of View (He, She, They) - point of view, the narrator is describing what’s seen, but as a spectator...
.. and many more of unique ways to use the POV shot in photography/filmmaking. I share some of my photography POV research findings below:
Photography
Bird’s-eye View
When photographing a subject from above, it is known as a “bird’s-eye view”. Photographing from this point of view can make viewers feel as they are superior to the subject for example :)
Eye Level
This is the most common way to photograph a subject. Photographing humans from eye level is fairly common. After all, it is typically the way we regard most subjects in our day to day lives, especially other people so photographing animals from that POV will be unique as we hardly get face-to-face with a fox, or a bird, or a snake.
Worm’s-eye View
Photographing from below is sometimes referred to as “worm’s-eye view”, as if you were a worm looking up at the world around you. This makes all subjects look very large, even if they are very small in reality and as opposed to images shot from above, subjects presented in this way look as though they hold power over the view.
Becoming the Subject
This point of view tends to be the most effective, especially when photographing human subjects. To use this technique, we should photograph subject from the point of view of the person interacting with the subject.
Juxtaposition
Shooting a subject from an "unexpected" angle and situation.
Dutch Angle
It is a type of camera shot at an angle on its roll axis so that the shot is composed with vertical lines at an angle to the side of the frame, or so that the horizon line of the shot is not parallel with the bottom of the camera frame.
I have also research some information about POV in cinematography:
Cinematography
Not-Your-Average POV
These kinds of POVs are great if you're showing your audience a world that is unlike the one they live in. Films set in space, on distant planets, and fantasy worlds.
Hidden Monster POV
The hidden monster POV has been used countless times by countless filmmakers. It is a common trope of the horror genre, it has some very unique psychological and emotional affects.
Inanimate POV
The effects POV depends on where the POV is coming from. It has effect on viewer. Shots like the ones you see in Breaking Bad turn the viewer into "mute witnesses" of crimes, misdeeds, and mishaps occurring on-screen.
I have choice my Colosseum shape ashtray as significant object into my respond to “Tiny Worlds” project. I have photograph it from different points of view...
..and I have selected 1 image as a final one...
POV impact much on photographic object chosen by me. Different point of view allow me to show an object from different perspective what finally has an effect of whole photograph. My chosen object has lots of different patterns and these can be shown using change of POV in so many ways, its size also could be presented in different scales. POV is crucial at story telling in photography/filmmaking/literary.
