  This work presents a simple method to determine the significant partial wave
contributions to experimentally determined observables in pseudoscalar meson
photoproduction. First, fits to angular distributions are presented and the
maximum orbital angular momentum $\text{L}_{\mathrm{max}}$ needed to achieve a
good fit is determined. Then, recent polarization measurements for $\gamma p
\rightarrow \pi^{0} p$ from ELSA, GRAAL, JLab and MAMI are investigated
according to the proposed method. This method allows us to project high-spin
partial wave contributions to any observable as long as the measurement has the
necessary statistical accuracy. We show, that high precision and large angular
coverage in the polarization data are needed in order to be sensitive to
high-spin resonance-states and thereby also for the finding of small resonance
contributions. This task can be achieved via interference of these resonances
with the well-known states. For the channel $\gamma p \rightarrow \pi^{0} p$,
those are the $N(1680)\frac{5}{2}^{+}$ and $\Delta(1950)\frac{7}{2}^{+}$,
contributing to the $F$-waves.
