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This lesson is all about proximity. I'll show you how moving on a straight path towards an object makes its top and bottom planes open up and its sides expand. We'll use alternate views, like top and side views, to demystify these perspective changes. Through studio and outdoor examples, you'll see how to create a convincing illusion of deep space or a compressed, flatter view simply by understanding how distance works.
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Moving closer to your subject changes more than just its size.
Getting close to an object makes its surfaces expand and open up toward you, creating a powerful feeling of depth. Stepping back causes those same surfaces to compress and flatten. This can make your scene feel compact, even if your vanishing points stay the same.
a-ha! I think something clicked after this lesson.
We are playing with depth, but as a picturemaker we gotta decide what stays as the anchor through the whole proximity process.
In many cases the anchor will be the subject, But our subject could also be the horizon line no? Ex: Camera moving straight towards the sea line in the distance.
As our trajectory move towards/away from the subject, depending on our lens' angle, modification will differs:
- If the horizon line is at or near the center, meaning we are looking straight forward, we adjust the subject in according to depth changes, (picture 1)
- If we are looking down on a subject, horizon line is away from the center or even outside the frame, proximity changes will move that horizon line away or closer to the subject. Subject will be affected by depth changes as well but stay in position (picture 2)