Prompt: The main character of your story has a great passion for photography and one fine day gets an opportunity to be a photographer for a day. Develop a story explaining location your character would choose to shoot and the types of photos that would be taken along the way etc.
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Today's cameras can do almost everything automatically. The one thing they cannot do is tell you where to stand and where to point the lens and when to take the photograph. These are the sole responsibilities of the photographer, and it is the photographer who determines the viewpoint and perspective of the image he or she chooses to create.
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Viewpoint
viewpoint 1 a way of looking at or thinking about something (Definition from Merriam-Webster)
All photographs contain one or more subjects. (With an abstract photograph, the abstraction may be the subject.) As a photographer, when you see a subject or scene that you wish to photograph, you point the camera in that general direction, compose, and release the shutter. A great many of us are standing when we do this, and we raise the camera to our eye and take the photograph.
Not all photographs need to be taken from our eye level (or from the top of a fully-extended tripod)-nor should they. Changing your viewpoint is not only a great way to enhance a composition; it might make your photograph stand out from all of the other eye-level views made of a similar subject.
What happens when you change your viewpoint? The background and foreground change with it.