How Is This Achieved - Apparently Elevated Perspective

[DrTang]

the bottom one looks like he is on a rise or hill..or even a porch, the top one looks roughly level with the street with the lens placement giving a slight rise

[Jim Jones]

Improvising a suitable mount for the camera atop the stepladder is simpler than using stepladder plus tripod.

[Tin Can]

Improvising a suitable mount for the camera atop the stepladder is simpler than using stepladder plus tripod.

Now why didn't I think of that...

After all I do have a 10 ft painting pole with a 1/4-20 bolt for small cameras.

[Jerry Bodine]

I've posted this photo before, but every time the subject of a high viewpoint is brought up I think of it again.

[Dan Fromm]

I'm not sure that's very high, Jerry. I attended a professional meeting in La Paz, BCS, in 2000. A local pro was contracted to take the group photo. He shot us, massed on one side of a plaza, from the roof of a four story building on the other side of the plaza. I can't report how the shot turned out, participants never got copies. I suspect a major catastrophe somewhere between fresh film in the box and processed film in the darkroom.

[IanBarber]

Today I went into but didn't have a box or ladders so I cheated and walked onto the roof of the car park



Fomapan 100
Kodak HC-110
Chamonix 4x5 & 90mm lens

[Greg]

Back in the 1980s we rented a Linhof Heavy Duty tripod whose bottom legs were probably X3 or X4 the length of the normal chrome bottom OEM legs. Center post was raised all the way up (possibly with an extension). I'm guessing the top of the tripod was 12 feet above the ground. Was actually a very, very stable. Working with the Sinar mounted way up that high was a challenge since I was standing/balancing atop a way less stable step ladder. Soon after that purchased a normal Linhof Heavy Duty tripod with center column. Still have and use it with an 800mm Nikkor and a Questar.

[Kirk Gittings]

I don't have a snap handy with my VC on this, though I use it often on this tripod.

[Alan Gales]

I've posted this photo before, but every time the subject of a high viewpoint is brought up I think of it again.

I've used these in construction. They are a whole lot safer!

https://www.google.com/search?q=JLG&...-01mMDIStzM%3A

[Cor]

I personally do not find the perceptive that odd, but I am 1.92 m tall, and I like to have my LF camera at eye level, so I do not have to stoop..;-)..

Best,

Cor