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Perspective
The term “perspective” has several meanings in an effect. If you are using a wide-angle lens, you
art. In photography, it’s used to describe the spatial usually have to get close to your subject. But if you
relationships—the relative size and distance—of use a telephoto lens, the increased magnification
the elements in an image. The focal length of a lens and the narrowness of the angle of view mean that
does not directly affect perspective; the camera’s you need to move farther back. This physical change
position relative to the subject or point of interest in distance, rather than the change in the focal
does. This is when the focal length you choose has length of the lens, alters the perspective.

25MM 50MM 100MM 200MM

With a 25mm lens, a If you switch to a 50mm lens, Using a 100mm lens requires When using a 200mm lens,
full-frame camera needs to you will need to move the an even greater distance you need to increase the
be close to the subject for camera farther away from the between the camera and camera-to-subject distance
it to look the right size within subject for it to stay the same your subject. Space appears even more. However, the
the frame. Elements in the size within the frame. The more compressed in the background seems closer
background are reduced background elements now resulting photo, with the size to the subject. Space is
in size and look farther away look larger in the frame and of the background elements highly compressed, and the
from the subject than they closer to the subject. increased relative to the size background elements look
are in real life. of the subject. much larger in the frame.

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