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, which…is the house over to the left and the windmill next to it,…