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Creating beautiful images is fun

Building on the basics of Shutter, Aperture and ISO to control Exposure.

Hi <<First Name>>,

I hope you had fun with macro shots last month.
This month we will explore 'Perspective'.

The world is three dimensional. It has height, width and depth. Photography is a two dimensional form. It is easy to illustrate height and width, but to allow for depth we need to use perspective. That is a representation of three dimensions on a flat medium. Visually, that means that objects appear smaller the further away they are from us. For photography, we need to consider if this will be something that we want to render true to life or use it as a distorted view for drama or fun.
 
Perspective can be problematic when photographing buildings and rooms, things that are supposed to be vertical and parallel. When photographing up at a building the vertical lines will converge and make it appear that the building gets narrower as it goes up.
There are special lenses that correct for that distortion, but unless you are in the business of taking architectural photos for profit I doubt that you would want to spend the money on one of these. The best thing to do is to fix it in post processing.
The same is true for people. Resist the tendency to always take pictures standing up. Specially when photographing small children. Doing this makes their head look out of proportion to their feet.
Get down on their level or bring them up to your level. to get the right perspective. Practice changing your camera height with a friend or family member and see what difference it makes. Also practice this with the model standing and sitting, close up and full body.
Guidelines:
Standing subject: full length portrait - keep the camera at waist level.
Waist up: keep the camera at chest level.
Head and shoulders: keep the camera slightly higher than the eyes
Be careful when shooting panoramas of distant scenes.  Make sure that you keep the camera shooting as horizontal as possible and crop out any unwanted subjects later. And be sure to add something in the foreground to add to the feeling of depth.
You can also have fun with perspective by applying it in a manner that is unusual. This is my itsy-bitsy wife and dog.
I have them in the palm of my hand.  Although I really think it's the other way around. You need to have a pretty small aperture for this one in order to get a big Depth of Field.
The pictures above are not Photoshop-d.
What other fun things can you do with a twist on perspective?
This one actually made it to the Twisted Tea web site.
Was this helpful? Is there something that you want to hear about? Send me a note and I'll try to get the topic developed.


Cheers,

Michael

 
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