Photography Asked on June 21, 2021
Let’s say I want to use a stock photo like the next one in a simple composite, for example put this person on some other background.
Since we can see the full body and especially the legs here, I would definitely need to match the horizon lines. So my question is where is the horizon line here?
Full body shots like this tend to be shot from around waist height - though that can change depending on the model & the intent.
So the 'simple' answer is it's between his waist & elbows, give or take. But that's not the whole story.
You can get a rough idea by dropping the model into some landscapes & seeing how it sits. You can see that [very approximately] getting the horizon around the model's waist tends towards it fitting the image; but only if you can place his feet in an appropriate position for his scale and only if the camera height & tilt approximately matches. Wrong height, or tilted too far up or down will quickly fail to look comfortable.
You need to push or pull the model close or far depending on how long a lens your landscape was shot too. The distance the model was shot from & therefore the lens length will also have an effect. From 2m or less [or worst of all, at arm's length on a mobile phone - big nose, little ears syndrome in extremis] you will see a greater difference in apparent sizes at extremities than if it was taken from 4m or more.
You also tend to have to put him slap bang in the centre so the left/right perspective matches.
As you can see, merely knowing where the horizon should be is only half the battle.
These were done very rapidly, some came out better than others. I've made no attempt to properly blend to landscapes or match lighting etc.
All landscapes taken from govt/council public information sites with no accreditation
Answered by Tetsujin on June 21, 2021
The picture allows looking up the subject’s nostrils and down at the top of their shoes, so the horizon line is definitely below the nose and above the feet.
The horizon line of a photograph will be at the height of the camera (though rise and fall camera movements can distort this relative to where the camera is aimed). With organic subjects like people exact determination will require more work. With rectilinear subjects it is easier to trace perspective lines.
Answered by Bob Macaroni McStevens on June 21, 2021
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