Shoot Low

Almost all street photography is shot from eye level. It is the easiest level to shoot from. It is also the least interesting angle, because it is the angle that most closely matches how we already see the world. The photograph shows us what we could have seen if we had been standing there. That is a low bar.

Shooting low — camera at knee height, or ground level, or pointing upward — changes the visual relationship between your subject and their environment. The street becomes a ceiling. Buildings become vertiginous. A person walking toward you becomes larger than the city behind them. A puddle becomes a second sky.