frog's-eye view

• frog's view
• frog view

By contrast to a bird's-eye view.

frog's-eye view (plural frog's-eye views)

1. A point of view from the ground or from within a system.
   • 1995, Gyorgy Kepes, Language of Vision, →ISBN, page 91:

     Not only the accustomed frontal and profile-views but also the view from above, the bird's-eye view, and that from below, the frog's- eye view, were recorded.

   • 2008, Aron Vinegar, I Am a Monument: On Learning from Las Vegas, →ISBN, page 57:

     This contrast between the expressionism of Crawford Manor and the deliberate damming of expression in Guild House is “dramatized” by the strikingly different photographic perspectives of the two exteriors: a frog's-eye view of the undulating, striated, and chiaroscuro-lit blconies of the "soaring tower" is juxtaposed with a "deadpan" view of the tightly cropped, shadowless facade of Guild House (figure 3.4).

   • 2010, Kurt Pritzl, Truth: Studies of a Robust Presence, →ISBN, page 248:

     Flat on the ground, the specialized inquirer has a frog's-eye view (BGE, 2/10).

• worm's-eye view