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high angle
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High angle is a camera position above the subject looking down, so people and objects appear smaller against the ground and the frame feels open or distant.
Using high angle
Reach for it when you want a subject to feel smaller, watched, or part of a larger environment — the downward view flattens verticals and opens up the ground around them.
Watch the tilt. Too shallow (just above eye level) loses the effect; too steep (nearly straight down) becomes overhead instead. The sweet spot is an elevated diagonal, usually around 30–60 degrees.
Not to be confused with overhead. Overhead or top-down shoots straight down and reads like a map; a high angle stays diagonal, so the subject still has a visible face and a sense of depth.
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