Guild Wars 2

maybe you’d like to post here

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Beauty-of-Guild-Wars-2/page/2#post4401005

you can use /sleep chat command to hide your character, works best on a slope or against a wall because this forces the camera to skip your character.

if you are underwater, simply face a vertical surface like the wall of a quaggan house, slopes or rocks.

For screenshots of your character, use the camera position slider to get the char out of the center

They have also changed the camera slightly in the most recent update

ctrl + shift + h

I think I recall comments like this back near launch, how people wanted to capture the landscape without the character being seen, and the closest they came up with was having the character /sleep then zooming in as close as possible. ArenaNet has said that they don’t want to make a first-person view because they feel seeing the character is important, but I guess there are other ways to deal with the issue.

Random thoughts:
*I do know there is a way to remove the UI, but I don’t know how off-hand.
*Perhaps one day, an inventor can come up with some kind of camera to take photographs. It could be a fun device you just pull out and take random snapshots of the world. It could even have a scavenger hunt element to it, like photograph certain landmarks, or the different enemies. That would certainly be a way to re-introduce the information books from the betas: a photo of the bandits will give a lore-dump on their motives.
*I have to admit, while the landscape is very pretty there, I’m not exactly certain what you’re trying to capture in that specific screenshot. It might be artistic; I admit I don’t truly appreciate some of the photographic art out there.