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Compressing distance using a long lens

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Compressing distance using a long lens

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- Before we head down to another vantage point, I wanna talk about one more very important idea with long lenses and landscape photography. And that's compression. Now, what a long lens does is it takes elements in a scene and makes them appear closer together. What a wide-angle lens does is the opposite, it makes your subjects appear further apart. Compression is a very powerful tool, and we're gonna use it here in the Palouse. Now, one of the important elements is elevation. At the top of the butte, we are so far above our landscape, it's very difficult to compress those elements. So what we're gonna do is we're gonna take a shot here, then we're gonna travel down to a lower elevation so that we can actually stack those hills together. Got our polarization, into live view, our focus, and our shot. So the technical settings for this image, aperture is f/11, shutter speed 1/125 of a second, ISO 200, and it's sharp corner to corner. Now let's head down the butte and find a lower…

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