DAY 364

NATURE & LANDSCAPES

Changing Perspective

THERE’S ALWAYS MORE THAN ONE WAY TO LOOK AT IT

Relationships are built on the association of one thing to another and come in many forms: a parent to a child, a wife to a husband, an employer to an employee, or a student to a teacher. Inanimate objects can also have a relationship: a leaf to a tree, a nail to a board, or ink to paper. It all depends on how you look at it. It all depends on your perspective.

Applying that to photography, perspective has a distinctive meaning—the relationship of one subject to another. Two objects, such as a flower and the setting sun, can show a significant change in perspective, depending on what lens you use.

When photographed close up with a wide angle lens, the flower will be significantly larger than the sun. A shot taken from the same angle with a telephoto lens, keeping the flower in the same position in the frame, will compress the scene, causing the sun to appear much larger. The longer the lens, the more the compression. —WTD