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You are SO right about angle of a shot and its effect on perspective & lite
I only just stumbled onto this interesting facet, of your writing and photographic talent, combined. You impress me even further. I really wish that I knew how to send someone a digital photo, one taken in New Mexico, a couple years ago. While unashamedly admiring this one photo. my luckily having hit on the perfect combination of lighting angle, shadows, composition, framing, the color-shift toward a deeper, richer blue, of the high altitude sky, the clouds and most dramatic of all the subject, a huge mountainous prominence of a craggy shipshaped prow, apparently frozen in the moment of bursting through sandstone rubble, the shed gravel and shattered stone, looking for all the world, like parting, roiling and rolling sea foam. I took only that one shot, and moved on, instead of taking a series of shots, as id my habit. Later, I was confounded that I did not take more shots from varying angles, exposures, etc. to ensure capturing such grandeur, in a photograph. Later it hit me why I probably had dismissed that scene as unworthy of a whole series of shots. It was all in my PERSPECTIVE! In that photo, what appears to be a striking, small, midrange mountain, was actually a large, nearby, rock outcropping shot from close below, against a background of that sky and a smattering of bleach-white fleecy clouds, with hazy, distant whitecapped mountains, and the fact that no manmade object was in the photo, it skewed all sense of perspective. Only the photograph is impressive looking, but I suspect that the scene itself, was actually nothing special.
Guy
posted by
northsage_45
on February 21, 2010 at 4:37 PM
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What a beauty.


Hope
posted by
hope26
on January 23, 2010 at 6:51 AM
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What a lovely photo, the essence of the season, no matter an illusion! What a beautiful tree, too! sam
posted by
sam444
on January 23, 2010 at 5:17 AM
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Is it illusion or reality :-)
posted by
Straightforward
on January 22, 2010 at 1:36 AM
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