Lowering your height

[Yoricko]

Just curious,

I'm sure a lot of good street shooters has their own way of lowering their height to reduce wide-angle distortion off-axis.

I've seen some (from videos) just hunching their back, some just bend their knees, some with some-sort of fighting stance, and etc.

How do you normally lower your height?

 

[bgb]

I almost have to go down on one knee but if i can shoot from a park bench or sitting on something else like a stone wall that's even better.
Not always great being tall

 

[back alley]

i carry a chair with me...

 

[Keith]

i carry a chair with me...

Because you never seem to use emoticons I have to take this seriously.

I'm a little worried though at the thought of street shooters all around the world now heeding your advice and carrying chairs with them!

 

[back alley]

i also carry a small wet bar...

 

[farlymac]

So, that's why you need the chair!

PF

 

[back alley]

i also advise short shooters to carry a ladder...

 

[Keith]

Toulouse-Lautrec would have been a natural of the low perspective at five foot one!

 

[gns]

It is a physical activity.
Winogrand likened it to athletics.

Cheers,
Gary

 

[Vilk]

hmmm... interesting... i don't think i've ever as much as lowered my chin. you know, kinda like, if the picture is there, it's there, distortion or not... oh well, i'm probably just rationalizing my innate laziness

 

[Trooper]

I never really gave it much thought. I squat, take a knee, lay prone--whatever puts the camera where it needs to be. Don't over think it.

 

[acheyj]

Chain saw ?

ron

 

[Roberto V.]

I usually bend my knees, get on one knee, or lay down on my back or prone

 

[skibeerr]

Ruptured tendon at the knee, Back Ally's chair might come handy

 

[Sparrow]

i carry a chair with me...

... in which bag?

 

[dmr]

Shoot from the hip? Use a TLR?

 

[NickTrop]

1. Yashica T3, T4 with scope/waist-level finder...
2. Flip-Bac for digicams:

3. DSLR with articulated LCD screens...

 

[semrich]

I'm wearing the right knee out on all of my jeans.

 

[GSNfan]

Instead of the bellybutton angle, why not use a monopod and shoot from the air?

There are no rules as how you shoot, but make sure you have a good rational reason why you're using a certain angle. For me using eye-level angle is more realistic since the viewer could have seen the photographed scene from the same viewpoint.

 

[Sparrow]

Instead of the bellybutton angle, why not use a monopod and shoot from the air?

There are no rules as how you shoot, but make sure you have a good rational reason why you're using a certain angle. For me using eye-level angle is more realistic since the viewer could have seen the photographed scene from the same viewpoint.

That would make more sense it's usually height I lack, I often hold wide-angles overhead to try straighten the verticals ... like this