People need to stop misusing this tag, it's getting annoying. Normally I just fix the tags and move on, but I literally can't. The amount of mistags is makes the tag essentially unusable now.

The perspective being close to the ground does NOT make an image worm's-eye view. The camera has to be nearly perpendicular to the floor, facing upwards.

These are NOT worm's-eye view, they are only low_angle_view. But for some reason they are tagged as such. (The camera is parallel to the floor, and not under a character.)

post #5173859 post #5173805 post #5182585 post #5165858 post #5218733

Some are not even low_angle_view at all:
post #5163795 post #5190833 post #5023755

These ARE worm's-eye view (View is nearly perpendicular to the ground, facing upwards).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worm%27s-eye_view

post #5149268 post #5199116 post #5186742 post #5188873 post #5150963 post #5137020

People who routinely misuse tags are usually not the people who check forums and read threads about correct tag usage. If you see someone tag misused, replace it with correct one. If you see someone repeatedly misusing a tag, report them.

Though to be fair, I think the wiki pages could use visual examples of what the tag is meant for. Written description often tends to leave quite a lot of room for misunderstandings.

it should be more appropriate to click on tags/desc beneath history, find a user that added the tag, and send them a message about avoiding the tag - at least constructively

worm's-eye_view is a terrible name, then. The name gives the impression that the view should be like that of a worm, i.e. close to the ground looking upward at a subject. It suggests nothing of the proximity and placement relative to the subject.

watsit said:
worm's-eye_view is a terrible name, then. The name gives the impression that the view should be like that of a worm, i.e. close to the ground looking upward at a subject. It suggests nothing of the proximity and placement relative to the subject.

How about extreme_low_angle_shot ? Nah, how about underneath_shot instead.

dinbyy said:
How about extreme_low_angle_shot ? Nah, how about underneath_shot instead.

I could definitely get behind renaming it as underneath_shot or something similar. It would communicate much better what kind of angle it's for.

These views all could probably be de-implicated and aliased to tags the follow the same nomenclature as side_view, front_view, and rear_view

That means using 'top_view'(or over_view) for perspectives looking strait down at the character and 'bottom_view'(under_view) for perspectives looking strait up at character.
e621 already had one of these tags but its rather unclear why it was aliased to less clear terminology topic #11157 .

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PS: I will say that running google searches on images of birds eye view are actually even worse than similar searches on worms eye view.

personally I've always felt that "low angle" was confusing terminology, honestly. like, to me "low angle" feels like it should mean one of two things, either the pitch angle of the camera is around 0° (roughly parallel to the ground) or negative (pointing towards the ground). I've never really understood why "camera's pointing upwards" is what it actually means.

dba_afish said:
personally I've always felt that "low angle" was confusing terminology, honestly. like, to me "low angle" feels like it should mean one of two things, either the pitch angle of the camera is around 0° (roughly parallel to the ground) or negative (pointing towards the ground). I've never really understood why "camera's pointing upwards" is what it actually means.

From what I can tell it's an actual term in photography to mean a viewing angle shorter than the subject that looks up at them. It creates a sense of being smaller and the subject more imposing.