From: Carl Weese (cweese@earthlink.net)
Date: 12/18/02-09:05:51 AM Z
> While considering perspective as closer or farther, also notice the
> change that occurs with left or right and up or down. Keep in mind that
> this lateral or vertical changing of position will have a new
> perspective. Such as when moved up, the ground in the foreground may
> now be farther away and tree tops may be closer.
Jeffrey,
Because a short (wide view) lens takes in things that are closer to the
camera, small changes in camera position make big changes in the picture.
With a longer lens the things in the picture are generally much farther
away, so minor changes in camera position have relatively little effect on
the appearance of the picture.
One interesting effect of this is that with a long lens you can stand in one
place and frame several landscape pictures with completely different
content, but they will all look pretty much the same graphically. With a
short lens you can stand in that same place and by making relatively small
changes in camera position make several pictures that look radically
different from each other, even though they all frame the *same* content.
Probably why I use short lenses for about 98% of my pictures.
---Carl
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