My second exercise today was also about focal lengths but this time the subject in the picture should remain same size. I first took a picture of a monument with my lens zoomed to 85mm. I then zoomed the lens to it’s widest setting which is 24mm. Then I walked straight towards the monument until the monument appeared same size as with 85mm.
Compared to the earlier exercise, this time the perspective changes dramatically. I placed the top right corner of the monument in the same position in the picture so you can really see the effect of using different focal length with different distance to the subject. Note that the distance is the key this time (see my earlier post). (more…)