From the course: Photography Foundations: Composition
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Controlling depth
So I am out here and I've just found another one of these, another wrecked, dilapidated building. This place is filthy with them; I love it. But this one is special, because it has this windmill further back in the next field to the right of the house. And I am so proud of myself. I am thinking in layers here, because I have got this barn layer here and I've got the windmill layer back there, and I'm seeing in my mind a picture wherein the windmill and the house can look like they're kind of next to each other or in closer proximity than they really are. In other words, I'm seeing layers and I am understanding that there's all the depth that I can work with that I can compress down to a single picture. So with that in mind, I'm going to take my shot. Okay, here it is, and it just doesn't work. Ah, boy, the windmill's tiny. That's not what I was seeing at all. Okay, let's look at why. I'm standing right here. I'm pretty close to this building. And so to get the framing that I want…
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