A matter of Perspective.
October 15th 2007 10:07
Unusual boot perspective
"There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs."
- Ansel Adams
They won't all be like this.
Perspective in photography is like perspective in art.
But the artist can create the perspective from his own imagination.
Whereas the photographer has to engage with what he perceives around him and move, often quickly, to capture an image and place it in perspective.
This word is almost beyond description, you can call it 'the placement' relative to one another of all the features present in the photographer's view finder, you can call it the 'distances and spaces' between objects, one can talk of a global perspective or a narrow perspective, one can say it is 'how this goes with that' or one can attempt a definition.
Perspective in photography "refers to the relationship of imaged objects in a photograph. This includes their relative positions and sizes and the space between them. In other words, perspective in the composition of a photograph is the way real three-dimensional objects are pictured in a photograph that has a two-dimensional plane."
It will take time and experience to feel completely at ease with the use of the word perspective as applied to your images. But it can mean the difference between a good photograph and one that should be relegated to the garbage bin, not merely the recycle bin.
old navy photo showing converging perspective
I think you may, by now, be getting the idea.
For our photos of the day, we have
link to train travel in Jakarta - CNN
Now you may say, that has nothing to do with perspective, but every photo has everything to do with perspective and I'll leave you to think about the various other perspectives that the photographer could have adopted.
It tells a story in just one simple image, and the acceptance many have to tolerate with antiquated forms of transport and the inherent dangers I might add.
It also tells a story of the exuberance of youth.
link to Nat Geo image of the Minke Whale shot in the open sea.
By contrast, the Minke Whale image embraces the wide open space of the sea and the exuberance of another species, we gain a close look at its white underbelly and the white foam of the water and the little white froths of small waves in a vast blue ocean and, wait, there is something wrong with this image, look at the hoizon, it slopes. May I suggest to you that this was a case of capturing the whale or losing the show, who wants to see, by preference, a pristine sky and a horizontal line for the definition of the horizon and lose the majesty and rare perspective of the whale. I wouldn't, circumstances do alter cases, so always bear that in mind. Barely two colours but a superb image, don't you think?
Here's what Nat Geo has to say:
The minke whale's missile-sleek shape helps it speed through the water at up to 20 miles (32 kilometers) an hour.
It also gives it a variety of common names, including little piked whale, pikehead, and sharp-headed finner.
(Text adapted from and photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Pursuing the Minke," April 2001, National Geographic magazine)
Photograph by Flip Nicklin
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It strikes me there are blog writers and readers and fortunately there a quite a few readers out there. But there was a lot of effort put into this post.
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