ImperialFighter said:
it always looks to me that because this is quite a 'close-up' camera POV of Artoo, then the viewpoint could be imagined as being either filmed from a point-of-view that's in-between the gap between Artoo and the (unseen) X-Wing engine nearest us...
This is how I had always imagined it, and I think the images you posted confirm it quite well.