Composition Masterclass: How to Get Perfect Perspective
Tutorial Details
- Equipment: A few lenses to experiment with
- Difficulty: Intermediate
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:
- Tips to Aid a Strong Perspective
- 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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Nice! Good composition makes a good photo…
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.
it tells you the secret behind good landscape pics. Nice tuts
Very informative! I’ll be waiting for more video tutorials. I picked up a lot of tips. Thanks for sharing them.
Incredible tutorial, thanks so much for sharing these tips!!
very informative
well done
This is very useful. This is definitely one of the most informative photography videos I’ve seen.
Thank you for the detail of subjects found in this tutorial. There are many suggestion that I can use in my photography.
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