From the course: Landscape Photography: Wide-Angle Lenses

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Creating a path for the eye by establishing depth

Creating a path for the eye by establishing depth

From the course: Landscape Photography: Wide-Angle Lenses

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Creating a path for the eye by establishing depth

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- Now we've discussed the idea of having a grand landscape and a strong foreground. And that foreground needs to have a relationship with the backgrounds so you complement each other and have something visually interesting. Now what I want to discuss in this movie is establishing depth. And what I mean by that is, in order for us to have a relationship between the foreground and background, usually there's some sort of path or line or visual cue for us to travel from one to the next. And with a wide angle lens, it ends up pushing everything apart and it makes the scene appear further than it really is. When I'm using a telephoto lens I'm looking for compression. I'm taking everything and kind of pushing it together. With wide angle, we're spreading it apart. And it's very important to have a strong path. So we're going to start by looking at this image taken in the Columbia River Gorge. And we have kind of a dual foreground, I've got some beautiful green ferns with fresh rain on top…

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