Perspective

 

Perspective

            Perspective in photography keeps lots of meaning which only an expert photographer can do. This technique usually creates optical illusion to make the subject appear more larger, smaller, closer or farther away from the place where it is taken. For example you might have seen people holding the Taj Mahal from its top or holding the leaning tower of Pisa by single hand or finger. You might have seen the pictures of somebody taken the sun into their mouth. These are optical perspective which creates illusion in the minds of the viewers.

            You might be eager that why I am saying all this to you. As long time back one fine morning at the sea beach of Digha in West Bengal I was taking morning stroll, as I always carry my camera with me, so carrying camera on that morning gave me a great dividend, as those days I haven’t heard about digital camera so I had my Nikon F 90 with a short zoom an analogue film camera with me. So while moving around the beach at early morning I saw a jet plane is passing through the horizon and its streak is burning in the morning sun light and the perceptively the jet liner was flying above the rising sun. Although it was a natural phenomena but that scene attracted me very much and I waited for the jet crosses over the sun then I took the shot. To establish my shot I composed the people paying oblations in the foreground, the water in the sea and the dramatic event which was taking place in the distant sky. Those days there were limitation of frames in the films in the camera not like these days when abundant frames can be shot.

            So, with those limitations I made my frame by composing and placing the ingredient such as people, the sea, the sun and the aero plane in a single frame and made a telling picture. Being a photojournalist in a long span of my career I have learnt that a picture must say something otherwise that will be an absurd frame. So far perspective is concern it is a key element of composition and photographer often look for fresh perspective to make a telling picture. 

            Every individual has his/her own perspective to see the world by their own way, that is why makes their work special. So to take your picture on different level it is essential to know how to use the different type of perspective. This is the most versatile tools in photography arsenal. There are some guidelines for perspective photography such as ---

1.     Linear perspective in this perspective the converging of lines such as railway track looks converging at a point in distant.

2.     High angle perspective in this way the camera angle kept in high position which make the subject smaller in look.

3.     Low angle perspective makes the subject high or bigger when the camera is kept low.

4.     Forced perspective in this type of perspective involve of manipulation of the size and the distant of the subject.

5.     Fish eye perspective give the perspective a dramatic effect by making the subjects converge in 360 degree, but rarely use. Mostly used in architectural and interiors use.

So, far the picture which I have shot there is no jugglery or manipulation in this. It is a direct photo shoot. It is the perspective of the situation which looks the picture in this way. So while taking pictures a photographer must keep in mind about the perspective to enhance his pictures.

Details of the picture a Jetliner is passing through horizon near Digha Sea beach.

Text and Photo by- Ashok Karan,

Ashokkaran.blogspot.com,

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