The older one gets, the harder it is to bend down or lay down on the ground to get intimate, eye-to-eye shots of small animals. For example, this sally lightfoot crab from the Galapagos Islands was about three inches above the lava, and I knew that the most compelling way to photograph it would be from ground level. A device that makes this kind of picture easy is a 90 degree angle finder. It replaces the eye cup or the frame around the viewfinder and allows you to look straight down into the finder to compose the shot. At the same time, the lens is parallel with the ground. Many of the new mirrorless cameras have a swivel LCD monitor, and this also solves the problem of comfortably shooting from a low point of view.
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