Since we now know that getting down low can help an otherwise sedate picture scene it follows that rising above it all can also lead to better pictures.
I was assigned to photograph the new general manager of the Altamont Raceway and after a series of photos atop the starter’s cage perched precariously above the racetrack I saw a different scene. I had the general manager stand on the start finish line and then stood astride the small cement wall surrounding the track. I held the camera at arms length and asked him to look at the camera.
The result was a nice clean background of the racetrack with the checkered line giving a race flavor to the photo. It was an otherwise mundane portrait elevated by a change of altitude.
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