Choosing the best camera angle. Great pictures also have something to do with the right camera angle that one has for intended subject matters. Basically, having the best camera angle also has something to do with the composition and framing methods - getting it right for the image you have in mind. When it comes to photography, most of us easily get carried away with the urge to record the image we see on film in a hurry without bothering to examine or think about the best possible camera angle first. The subject matter may look great in reality but the problem usually encountered is how to transform the same greatness of what you have seen into the pictures you have in mind. The Petronas Twin Towers, for example, being the world's tallest building, is one of those subjects that may give inexperienced photographers a small problem when it comes to getting them recorded on film. It is also a challenge even for professional photographers. Of course, professional photographers that are hired to shoot the Twin Towers will go to great heights in order to get the best possible camera angle for their clients, including getting permission from the nearby building owners for some of the shooting locations. But for the aspiring beginner and amateur photographers, getting such permission may not be that easy or possible - so shooting the towers from ground level or from further distances will be some of the options available to them, like these examples shown below. Wide-angle view, with tree in foreground Another wide-angle view, with streetlight     Shot from a distant, with 70mm focal length Shot at 300mm, from another part of the city Many of you do not own Canon's TS 24mm f/3.5L lens, so getting the towers to be parallel towards the film plane instead of leaning backward (in the pictures) is out of the question. To compensate for the usual non-parallel images like the first two photos shown above, try to include a nearby foreground object to add interest and relativity of size to your images. Shooting with telephoto focal lengths is another option. The fourth photo with the Star-LRT in the foreground was not shot with a single focal length EF telephoto lens but rather the EF 70-200mm f/2.8L USM zoom fitted with the Extender EF 2x, positioned between the 135mm and 200mm range. The particular location where this camera angle was shot? Across the Gombak river, off the Jalan Kuching highway where the LRT route runs parallel with it from the other side in Jalan Raja Laut. << Back to Main . 1 . 2 . 3 .