In this episode I'll show you how to exaggerate perspective
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Hi everybody, welcome to another episode on exploring photography right here on
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well today on this episode were gonna be talking about perspective
perspective is simply how our camera takes a three-dimensional world and
converts it to two dimensions
and we can look at that picture and still understand that , and how we can understand things
that are really small in image are far away and things that are large in a
image are close and so it looks natural to us
well we can change that we can exaggerate things if we know a few
things about how our camera creates
perspective and so I wanna show that here right now now to do that, I'm gonna ask
our model Lexus Catherine to come out
and I wanna show you the difference and perspective between
zooming in and out and walking close
and far away from something so what I'm gonna have a Alexis do is I want you to put a
thumb up like that
and I'm gonna take a picture and I'm gonna zoom in and out so first thing I'm gonna
do here is to focus on her thumb and I want to take a picture that is
zoomed out and then I'm gonna zoom in and take that
same picture okay when we look at these two pictures we can see
that the relationship between her thumb and her head
are basically the same so her thumb and her head look about the same size zoomed
out
or zoomed in and so zooming in and out is great and that's what you should do when you're
taking portraits
if we wanna exaggerate perspective and make something look larger
what we need to do is we need to walk closer to an object so put your thumb
now
again now and I want closer to her thumb that's gonna look much larger in the
frame
then her head and it's gonna make her thumb look really big
and her head like a really small and so now her thumb looks
larger then her head. We'll take a look at that and yeah her thumb is way outta whack
now once we know that when we know that we can get closer to objects and that's
gonna make them look larger
we can distort perspective for creative effects and to understand that fully were gonna
head down to the beach
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Well now that we know about exaggerated perspective we can put it into practice
here at the beach
earlier I shot an image using a standard 24-70mm lens
and you can see that we can see this jetty of rocks
and it looks okay or what I'd like to do is really exaggerate these rocks right here
so they're really prominent in the picture
so it will lead our eyes into the image and to do that I'm using a wide angle lens a
16-35mm lens
and I'm gonna get pretty close this rock, that's sticking out here
and I'll take a couple of snaps and you can see the difference let me get the shot really
quickly
so go zip over here. Perfect
okay I've shot a couple images there
and we can compare those two images and you can see that the second image with
the wide angle lens I think it looks better because it leads our eye
into the image and it really forces that perspective to make these rocks look
larger now you can use this technique for all kinds of things
to make your images look better so practice this with your photography and
see how it turns out for you
all right there you have it exaggerated perspective now for more tips and tricks
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