Composition Masterclass: How to Get Perfect Perspective
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Composition Masterclass: How to Get Perfect Perspective

on Apr 7th 2010 with 10 comments
Tutorial Details
  • Equipment: A few lenses to experiment with
  • Difficulty: Intermediate
This entry is part 2 of 9 in the Composition Session
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In this video tutorial on composition, we’ll be taking an in-depth look at perspective in your photographs. This will include how we can create or reduce depth in our images, lens choices for perspective, and a few extra tips on photography composition!

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Tutorial Overview

In this digital photography tutorial video we explore one of the most important subjects in photography – composition. This episode takes a look at perspective control, and how we can use it to create or reduce depth in our images by lens choice.

We start off in Majorca in Spain with some brief location video, followed tutorial sections on:

  • Wide Angles
  • Linear Perspective
  • Diminishing Perspective & Lens Compression
  • Mist & Haze

The tutorial takes a look at some of the images shot on-location on Majorca, moving from the original photo through to a finished image. We then offer two extra sets of tips:

  1. Tips to Aid a Strong Perspective
  2. Tips to Aid a Softer Perspective

Tutorial Images

Here are a few of the images used in the tutorial, shown at a slightly higher quality:

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  • http://patareco.tumblr.com/ Patareco

    Nice! Good composition makes a good photo…

  • http://www.paramidoh.blogspot.com Javier

    If you want to add depth to your photos, watch this video.

    Its impressive how not only the lens choice can change the depth of a picture. The height of the camera, amounts of haze, warm or cool colors.

    For me the differences shown with the third tutorial image, the one with the trees, was huge.

  • tom

    it tells you the secret behind good landscape pics. Nice tuts

  • http://cameraguyzack.blogspot.com/ Zack Jones

    Very informative! I’ll be waiting for more video tutorials. I picked up a lot of tips. Thanks for sharing them.

  • http://www.daydesignz.com Dayday

    Incredible tutorial, thanks so much for sharing these tips!!

  • http://thedphoto.com Diana Eftaiha

    very informative
    well done

  • http://www.mngphoto.com/index.html Michael Grijalva

    This is very useful. This is definitely one of the most informative photography videos I’ve seen.

  • Clay

    Thank you for the detail of subjects found in this tutorial. There are many suggestion that I can use in my photography.

  • Albert Taal

    Thank you for this nice tutorial, I’ve learned some new things. I however also miss something I concluded when trying to put some perspective into a scene. When there were no convenient fences, roads or other lines to use.
    in this picture: “https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/6zgfW9EoCClKP38noKxCAA?feat=directlink” you can see Rotterdam in the distance, somewhere in the middle you see some cattle and trees. You just can’t see how far those trees really are.
    If I would have been standing on a tower they would have been farther than they seem. If I was lying on the ground they would have been a lot closer. Luckily I found a pair of cows very close to me who could serve to emphasise the distance:
    https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/mtuIzylGoY-7aBKnt10M8A?feat=directlink

  • John

    Can’t see the video