I wasn’t sure if I was clear on the concept of perspective. I understand what it means as it pertains to drawing. I googled and found perspective distortion in wikipedia. A link at the bottom of the article took my to Kevin Willey. OK, so I tried to set up something similar and well, I didn’t get what I was looking for. The problem is my telephoto won’t photo so close and I didn’t have enough room to back up. But you can see the results of just using my wide angle zoom and the shots taken at 23mm and 54mm.
1/1
f/16
Manual
ISO 100
23 mm
14.0-54.0 mm f/2.8-3.5
OLYMPUS IMAGING CORP. E-410
1″
f/16
Manual
ISO 100
54 mm
14.0-54.0 mm f/2.8-3.5
OLYMPUS IMAGING CORP. E-410
I am posting this and I go to find the sites for the links and google. This time I am on my desktop and the results are a bit different. Weird. Anyway, here are a couple of more articles about perspective which I think are worth reading.
Photo Composition Articles
Shot Addict (this article is more what I was expecting)
XarJ Blog (clever and funny examples of perspective photography)
Becky (finsup) // Aug 30, 2009 at 8:48 pm
Hmmm…I have no perspective on perspective. Thank you for the example and the links, Sharon.
Steph // Aug 30, 2009 at 8:58 pm
What a great example of perspective!
amy // Aug 30, 2009 at 11:33 pm
Reminds me of my farm on Farmville, although I’d have to substitute a horse for the zebra. :)
Bobbi // Aug 31, 2009 at 8:31 am
Hmm I am going to have to go read those articles. I love your little zebra though :)
redsie05 // Aug 31, 2009 at 9:50 am
Gotta go see these articles – great examples!
Charleen // Aug 31, 2009 at 2:21 pm
I’ll have to go do some reading also! tfs
suzy // Aug 31, 2009 at 4:12 pm
Very cool perspective! I’m going to have to read up on those links as well. Thanks for the share Sharon!
Marcy // Sep 1, 2009 at 12:55 am
Nice! Since I know so little, perspective is something I need to learn. Off to visit the links. Thanks!