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Compressing the sense of depth

Compressing the sense of depth - Photoshop Tutorial

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Compressing the sense of depth

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Somewhere behind me is the Golden Gate Bridge. You might notice it. We're here. This is your lighting guy comes to town, you want to show him around. You take him out to the Golden Gate Bridge and he decides he wants his picture taken in front of it. So, Greg is standing here. I've just got this incredible vista in front of me. We really are lucky with the weather today. There's no fog. I can see all the way from the bridge to Alcatraz. And a lot of times in a situation like this, your first impulse is wow, look at all this. I got to get it all! And so you reach for your ultra-wide lens. Now, watch what happens when I use my ultra- wide lens to get a shot of Greg here. All right! How about a smile Greg? There we go! All right! I get this. Boy, there's a lot here. Yeah, I've got the bridge, and I've got Sausalito behind me and a little bit of Angel Island, and a lot of bay. But there's all this stuff on the right side that I don't need. There's this tree that I don't need. What's the…

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