Thought I’d share a little insight should anyone be interested.
Here are two images I took of Zach, they were taken with a 24-70 lens at 24mm from a very low angle, almost from the ground.
In the first image you’ll note that Zach’s body appears to be leaning backwards, his head smaller than in the second and the lower parts of his torso and legs, closer to the camera appearing larger. In this image, Zach was actually standing upright.
In the second image I asked Zach to lean forward, to him it felt weird, and to onlookers probably looked like he was leaning like Michael Jackson in the “Smooth Criminal” video ( see below ). But what I was doing was trying to get all of Zach’s body on the same focal plane, adjacent to the camera’s sensor so we’d not see the distortion in his body.
The result was a more natural looking image rather than one where Zach looks like he’s leaning backwards in the shot.