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Midjourney Camera Angles: Everything you need to know (House)
Photography camera angle terms may work differently
When creating an image with Midjourney, the camera angle is critical. It provides the audience with a view of your subject’s location and the scene in your story.
You can make the storytelling more appealing by using different camera angles. Your audience will be able to follow and perceive your message better.
Camera angle terminology is difficult to understand, especially for non-photographers unfamiliar with the subject. Numerous camera angle terms also mean the same thing, making the learning curve quite steep.
Do you need to know those camera angle terms for photography as a Midjourney user?
- Yes, in a way. These terms are helpful, but you can use them without fully understanding what they mean.
Do you have to use them precisely as the photographers have specified?
- No. After reading this story, you will understand why.
Does the Midjourney bot understand camera angle terminology like photographers?
- Both yes and no. As always, the bot has its methods for learning and comprehending those terms.
- When you use Midjourney to take photos, you are using Midjourney as your camera to create those images. But we can’t expect Midjourney to behave or act like a traditional camera.
- Midjourney generates a photo based on your prompt (and its “discretion”) because it does not always think like a human photographer.
- The bot interprets some traditional camera angle terms in surprising and unexpected ways.
Why was the house chosen as the story’s subject/object?
- We need something to test the camera angles.
- Everyone understands the concept of a house. It’s relatively large (so we can see how the camera angle affects it), inanimate (non-living), so it won’t move randomly, and rather… boring (so we don’t get distracted by its appearance and instead concentrate on the camera angle).
But what if I want to learn camera angles for something else, like for a car, people, or landscape?
