Earlier in the week I posted about getting up high to get a new perspective on a scene. Chas Elliot shot me this image of a hotel lobby in Singapore as an example of just that (click to enlarge).
Got any examples of this technique to share? Feel free to link to them in the comments on this post if you’ve hosted them on a photo sharing site or your own blog.
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30 Responses to “Getting Up High – Another Example [Share Yours Here]” - Add Yours
July 31st, 2009 at 7:07 am
Not as high but this one was taken at the Mission Inn. This is located in Riverside CA and had it’s fame back in the 1920’s.
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3365/3438845947_ee602b38ee_o.jpg
July 31st, 2009 at 7:18 am
I’ve got an old one from Florence here.
July 31st, 2009 at 7:22 am
Heres one of mine
http://www.redbubble.com/people/ozshadow/art/2013878-2-city-of-lights
July 31st, 2009 at 7:47 am
“Getting Up High” for an old style postbox. Found this one in the Rocks in Sydney.
July 31st, 2009 at 7:50 am
Not that impressive but still
here
http://photos-a.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc1/hs176.snc1/6609_224817110143_627855143_7885264_7376584_n.jpg
July 31st, 2009 at 7:52 am
I’ve got motion sickness from that photo!
July 31st, 2009 at 7:52 am
I took some wedding shots from a kite.
http://automaticcamera.blogspot.com/2009/05/finally-some-photos-from-sky.html
July 31st, 2009 at 7:57 am
Shot this video on the last floor of one of the biggest hotel in Montreal. It’s a video but you get the idea of the shots I got there… I am planning to go back there with a tripod at night…
http://www.vimeo.com/5177363
Getting up there was super easy: just ask!
July 31st, 2009 at 8:26 am
the example I have to offer. even won a contest with it. :-)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/poisonberry/2870922444/
July 31st, 2009 at 8:32 am
How about 1/4 mile straight down? http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/dLkj_57z0VXSCDkOUnWbwQ?feat=directlink
July 31st, 2009 at 8:35 am
Terrific shot..
Well this is not one of my photos, but one of my flickr contact’s photo:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jsouto/3464175066/in/set-72157612126688410/
taken from the top of the Royal Festival Hall in London.
July 31st, 2009 at 8:39 am
Here’s one that I took in Provincetown, MA.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/amrithk2000/3572186792/
July 31st, 2009 at 9:23 am
Here’s mine. Not as high as some of the others, but we did get there using nothing more than our own hands and feet. Had I not been also holding the other end of the rope I’d have sorted out the overexposed sky :-)
http://photos.piku.org.uk/v/Lake+District/Borrowdale/Shepherd_s+Crag/Little+Chamonix+Apr+2005/IMG_1188.JPG.html
Strapping cameras to kites sounds fun.
July 31st, 2009 at 9:30 am
Sorry to be a pain but I’m pretty sure that’s the Jin Mao tower in Shanghai, not Singapore.
July 31st, 2009 at 10:26 am
http://snapshots.co.nr/ on the subtitle Cityscape 101.1
it’s a Singapore cityscape taken from the top of Singapore Flyer
Comments and critiques would be really aprreciated
Thank you
July 31st, 2009 at 10:53 am
From the new extension to the Willis/Sears Tower in Chicago. You can walk out on see through platforms and look straight down 103 Stories! It’s pretty intense
http://www.flickr.com/photos/zachancell/3728570466/
July 31st, 2009 at 11:01 am
Not quite as dramatic a composition as your shot, but when I was in college my roommates and I crawled under a chain link fence so we could climb a water tower just off of Kendall Square in Cambridge. I dragged along my Yashica A TLR so I could do some time exposures.
Eastgate, Kendall Square, and Boston Skyline. Late Fall, 1967
Of course what is interesting about it now is not so much the composition as its historical interest.
The place it was taken from no longer exists and if it did still exist you would be able to see the traffic circle because it would be obscured by buildings. You may notice some notable features of the current Boston skyline are missing too.
July 31st, 2009 at 11:16 am
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2592/3731991333_dc176bcc96_b.jpg
This is from the bridge of the petronas towers. They knew thousands of tourists would look down and they planed accordingly
July 31st, 2009 at 2:03 pm
here’s a wide-angle shot from the 35th-floor. http://oweynge.com/2009/02/35th-floor/
July 31st, 2009 at 3:34 pm
wide angle view from the 35th floor.
July 31st, 2009 at 11:41 pm
The second shot posted on my blog was shot looking down at my daughter. It’s not as good as some of the one’s posted here, but it encompasses the overall theme of the article about looking down at things. :)
August 1st, 2009 at 12:56 am
Here’s my “high” shot!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/drrus/3319589761/in/set-72157612314890811/
August 1st, 2009 at 1:30 am
Take a look for Vincent Laforet……..he’s taken a lot of shots outta helicopters. Had the honor of sitting thru a 2.5 seminar of his recently. Awesome stuff!
http://laforetvisuals.com/index.php
August 1st, 2009 at 2:33 am
This is a shot from the Parks Double or Nothin’ contest. I was in a boom lift and it felt as if I was 70-80 feet in the air but I really don’t know how high I was. Obviously higher then the chopper!
http://rileybangerter.blogspot.com/2009/07/getting-up-high.html
August 1st, 2009 at 4:21 am
Here are some of mine. Some from my trip last year to Ireland the rest out of a plane window on my way to Seattle.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/riversong96/sets/72157621905566642/
August 1st, 2009 at 5:41 am
This looks EXACTLY like the lobby of Jinmao tower in Shanghai, is there the same building in Singapore??
August 5th, 2009 at 7:54 am
That’s impressive. Anyone here try some kite- or balloon-aided aerial shooting? I’ve always wanted to do that, but I don’t have a camera I’m willing to send hundreds of feet above the ground.
August 7th, 2009 at 1:35 am
Here is mine from the Eiffel Tower. http://www.busymompictures.com/2009/07/look-for-unique-point-of-view.html
August 7th, 2009 at 7:04 pm
While not as high as everyone else’s, here is mine which is a shot above the stairs of the San Diego Convention Center. http://www.flickr.com/photos/deadringer/3797812214/
August 7th, 2009 at 10:52 pm
here’s my share!!!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/alienscream/3171809347/
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