Move your feet, change your perspective.
Zoom in, change your crop.
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Hi, this is Jay P. Morgan.
Today on Slanted Lens, I'm gonna talk about a photograph I did last night with my brother
down at Echo Park.
My brother's a real estate agent here in Los Angeles, and I did a photograph of him with
the L.A. skyline in the background.
He wanted that to represent him working in L.A. But now the issue became, how large do
I want that L.A. city skyline to be in the background?
I have complete control on that depending on what lens I choose to use.
So let's take a look at the difference between zooming in with a zoom lens versus getting
up and moving your feet and drawing closer to your subject matter, and how that changes
the perspective of the background in relationship to the person upfront.
So first off, I set up my camera, and I'm gonna start to just simply zoom in.
I'm on a wide lens here, 70 millimeters.
That skyline is way back there.
I like my brother and the skyline to get bigger, so I zoom in from 70 to 100, I go to 135.
As I go to 200 millimeters, the background is larger, but the relationship with my brother
to the background stays exactly the same.
That's simply because I've cropped in.
I'm not changing the relationship of my background and my foreground.
So when you zoom, you can't change the relationship of the background or the foreground.
It always stays the same.
But if you wanna change the perspective of the foreground to the background, if you want
it larger or smaller in the background, you've gotta move your feet.
The principle is keeping your subject the same size in the frame.
If you let him change, then it changes everything and it becomes a little more complicated.
So if you keep him the same size of the frame, as you walk in and widen your focal length,
the background goes further away.
As you back out and extend your focal length to a longer focal length, the background comes
in.
So now I'm going to move my feet.
I start with 200 millimeters.
That looks great.
The city back there is fabulous, it's big.
But if I want that city smaller, I simply stand up, I walk forward, I re-frame at 135
millimeters, I make my brother the exact same size in the frame.
Now when I take a picture, you'll see that the background was pushed further away and
it becomes smaller.
I move to 70 millimeters, I'm now seeing a lot of the...all the area.
I'm seeing the lake, I'm seeing the dock sign on the left, I'm seeing that city skyline
now is very, very small.
But when I put my brother the same size in the frame, I get a very small, little city
skyline in the background.
So there you have it.
When you move your feet, you can change the relationship of the background and the foreground.
You can make it larger or smaller.
If you have something you don't wanna see in the background and you wanna crop into
it, then back up and go to a longer focal length.
If you wanna see more of the background and make it seem further away like he's looking
at the vast city and it's way out there, move forward and go with a wider lens, and that'll
push that background away from him further, but you gotta make him the same size in the
frame.
So I can't see enough of the downtown buildings with Kelly here.
And so, I can move him, and that'll help change my perspective.
I will back him up to the sidewalk.
And now my angle of view on my lens is gonna get past that sign on the side.
It's driving me crazy.
And I can look out and I'll see a lot more of the city light down there if I just move
him forward.
So we're gonna move all of the lights forward and reset.
So, Andy, move all of our the lights back in, and I can move forward now, about the
same distance.
And now my angle of view is gonna look past that sign just enough to be able to see the
downtown buildings.
Change your model, change your perspective.
Now these look great.
We're getting a great reflection on the water now.
There's the hair, it's looking good.
Just looking out now.
So there's a look at how to change the perspective of your foreground to the background by changing
your feet, changing your focal length.
Remember, change your feet, change your perspective.
Change your zoom, simply cropping.
So keep those cameras rolling, keep on clicking.
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