The simplest explanation: The closer the camera is to a subject, the more distorted the perspective will be. The further away, the more natural it will look. They use different lens to capture the same sort of composition. A wider angle lens is needed to capture more things up close.

This seems to be a topic of lenses, and if we as artists assume that we want to construct our drawings as if looking through a camera lens, the way we would want to place our vanishing points on the horizon line must change depensing on the lens we want to imitate. Cameras have lenses with different geometrical shapes which capture more or less of the image you want to shoot. A camera lens with a focal length of 35 mm (a typical wide angle lens) will capture a larger but also more distorted area of a subject. A camera lens with a focal length of 85 mm (a typical portrait lens) will capture a more focused area with less distortion. A lens captures a photo in the same way a picture plane works when drawing. If you know about horizon lines and vanishing points (VP's), you already know how they're part of the picture plane. The imagined VP's of a 35 mm lens will be closer together, and farther apart with the 85 mm lens. A fisheye lens will have a focal length of 6-16 mm and produce a very extreme distortion. In all drawings, vanishing points (VP's) that are very close to each other distort the lines more than vanishing points far from each other. Camera lenses are designed with this in mind. For this reason, not many photographers would use a 35 mm lens to do a portrait since it distorts faces in an unflattering way. Another photohgrapher would, on the other hand, maybe deliberately choose a fisheye lens to make portraits with a specific style in mind where extreme distortion works to the style's favor. I would suggest you search for information relating to perspective and vanishing points and how different placement of vanishing points affect the convergence of your drawings. I would also find an easy explanation of how focal length for camera lenses works. Then practice different scenarios, most simply by doing cubes first. Good luck!