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Perspective


In photography, what is perspective and why is it important? I've been searching the net for the answers but I have found none. thanx in advance


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February 15, 2000

 
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  Imagine yourself standing in the middle of straight railroad tracks and looking down the tracks as they disappear into the horizon. As the tracks get further away from you, they appear to come together. This is perspective.

Leonardo da Vinci would have a much more precise definition, something like: "a formula for projecting an illusion of the three-dimension world onto a two-dimensional surface." (from Helen Gardner's awesome pair of art history books, Art through the Ages)

In photography, the term is often used when a photo clearly shows a pattern where lines or a series of objects converge at a point.


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March 23, 2000

 
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