Notes by Fayzan Gowani
Notes
– February 22th, 2008
- Vantage point:
where your point of view is
- Parallel lines: in
perspective, they converge at a vanishing point
- Ex: telephone lines,
railroad tracks
- Moving a rectangular object
around and shooting it from different angles gives it different perspectives
- Tip: If you’re
going to have something off-center, exaggerate the off-center aspect,
otherwise it will look like a mistake
- Keeping lines straight
when taking a photo: If your film/sensor is parallel to the parallel
lines, then the lines in the photo will stay parallel
- Perspective makes objects
dramatic
- What is the correct perspective?
- -
When you start using focal lengths that aren’t “normal,” you trick
viewers into believing your unnatural perspective made by the focal
length, zoom, and lens
- If you’re interesting
in the technical aspect of perspective, look up perspective geometric
- Telephoto lens
– the lens that scrunches things together in the same France,
flattened out
- Telephoto effect:
When there is a disconnect between the visual field and vantage point,
you get a pancake effect. No converging lines, things become very parallel
- Technical terms and tools
- Zooming:
like cropping; there may be a loss of resolution, but not change in
perspective
- When you are close to something,
the lines of the object converge more than when you are far from it
- The longer the lens and
the farther back you are, the better the portrait of someone comes out
- The closer and shorter focal
length makes more converging lines
- Walking back and zooming
and having a depth of field = being close to the object and short
focal length
- Important point:
perspective is only a function of the distance of the subject from the
position of the viewer
- Take 2 photos
- First photo: take
from far and use focal length, zoom, telephoto lens, etc. to make a
photo
- Second photo: achieve
relatively same size of object shot in the first photo by not fiddling
with controls and actually walking up to the object