One of my favorite topics in my Digital Photography Basics class is the importance of perspective. Perspective includes what lens you choose and how you crop the image, but the most important factor is where you stand. The only way to change the perspective is to move the camera.
I use this image as an example of moving. The animation below shows a sequence of 25 frames as I moved closer to the seagull. I had a 14mm extreme wide angle lens on a full frame camera. so I had to get really close. My goal was to get close to the bird and position him with the Golden Gate Bridge in the background.
You’ll notice about 1/2 way through the sequence I was almost there when the he flew down to the next pylon so I had to start again. I ended up less than 2 feet from the bird to finally get the shot.
My class at ICC’s Pekin Campus starts April 1 and meets for 6 weeks.
