Camera Shots & Angles

10 types and definitions

Birds Eye View

• A birds eye view is an elevated view of an object from above, giving the viewer the eyes of a bird; relatively speaking of course.

Angle

• In photography, angles describe how the photo was taken. Ex: side angle, etc.

Eye Level

• Eye level refers to the height a viewers eyes are positioned at in relation to the ground.

Oblique

• An oblique camera angle is a type of camera shot where the camera is tilted off to one side so that the shot has vertical lines in it as well.

Tilts

• Tilts is the use of camera movements on small and medium format cameras, and can sometimes refer to the use of selective focus.

Close Up

• A close up shot does not show the objects surroundings, it’s usually just a shot of the object.

Extreme

• A shot in which the subject is tightly framed and shown at a relatively large scale

Long

• A long shot shows the entire object or human figure and is usually intended to place it in some relation to its surroundings

Medium

• A medium shot is a shot of the person from the knees up or the waist up.