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People like seeing things at eye level, it feels unnerving seeing something from an angle we would never see ourselves so we can't relate to it.
45 degree drone shots are somewhat in the middle where you could imagine there being a mountain from where the picture was taken from but even then you'd feel like.. 'i could never see this vantage point in real life' so your mind kind of blocks the fantasy a photo at eye level can give you. Eye level photos give you that feeling that you too could one day see that shot in real life and unconsciously that gives people comfort.
Top down drone shots look awesome, for a minute or two, but then the illusion fades away and you're left with the same feeling you have when looking at a Google Maps image.
It's all about what people feel when viewing a photo and how a photo tries to continuously grab your attention or in this case lacks.
This is 100 how I feel. I don’t “connect” with aerial photos the way I do ground photos. Aerial can be fascinating but I am not going to hang it in my house.