Photography 1: The Art of Photography

Project: Focal Lengths.
Exercise: Focal Lengths and different viewpoints.

Two photographs were taken, one with the zoom lens set to its shortest focal length and one with the zoom lens set to its longest focal length.

The first photograph was taken of a beach hut with the focal length set to 105mm.  A tightly framed composition was made.

7165 Focal Length 105mm

The building has a flat, almost 2 dimensional look.  There seems to be very little distance between the front uprights and the doors of the hut.

7166 Focal Length 27mm

In this photograph the building has more depth.  Although the uprights are distorted there is more apparent distance between the front uprights and the door of the hut.  The hut appears to be closer to the camera, mainly due to being able to see the open sides of the verandah.

What have I learned from this exercise ?

A telephoto lens will give the image a flatter, more compressed perspective and a shorter depth of field.  A wide-angle lens will give a deeper perspective and a longer depth of field.