Perspective workshop

Perspective workshop was interesting. I preferred this workshop than the others, as I felt I had learnt valuable information form previous workshops etc: setting up studio equipment, setting up lighting equipment.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

When taking my shots I took 2 photographs on 5x4 with the horeman, 1 colour & 1 black & white - Portra 160.

 

First we concentrated on using 2 objects, we had to photograph one behind the other twice, with 2 different lenses. At first everything was set to 0, but then we had to shift the perspective. we then experimented with all the different adjustments on the camera. First we played with the `belo`, this made the object look straight. then we used the `tilt`, this made the part of the image in sharp  focus. The shift allowed us to move the front of the camera left or right, the movement is similar to rise and fall but moves the image horizontally rather than vertically. The rise and fall were a very important feature as the rise helped change the portion of the image that was captured on the film.

I learnt from our induction talk, if we had any form of distortion, a wide angle lens would be useful to have, as this would get more of the subject in the photo.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Lens research

 

As I was unsure about different sizes of lens I did some research to learn mor einformation. The image below shows a relatively wide focal length of a 28mm lens. The following image shows 4 trees with an equal distance between them. At the wide setting it seemed that the distance increased dramatically towards the foreground. In other words: the tree to the left seems to be separated from the rest of the trees. Therefore the background seems to be far in the distance.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The next picture has a more natural view at using a 50mm lens. The perspective is much less extreme. Due to our real life experience, we can guess the distance between the trees is roughly the same, though the separation is still visible.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This image shows a 100mm lens. The trees are quite close together, showing a small distance between one another. Compared to the previous sample, you notice the enlarged background moves towards the main object. The scene now looks compressed.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Using a 200mm lens,  the effect increases even more. The group of trees seem to appear on the same distance plane. The background is blurred, due to the small depth-of-field but the image seems to look a few meters away. This is called a "flat" perspective.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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