Brice Digital Photography

Perspective Photography

This long corridor one point perspective photo was taken in the stunning grounds of St John’s College, Cambridge. I made use of the strong diagonal shadow at the top of the arches to draw the eye in from the right towards the distant door in the lower left hand side of the shot. The high contrast helped to accentuate the 3D effect obtained. A small aperture of f22 was used to maximise the depth of field along with an ISO of 400 to avoid camera shake at this small aperture setting, given that I didn’t have a tripod or image stabiliser. To improve the composition I could have perhaps made better use of the rule of thirds which would have resulted in the distant door being positioned slightly further down from the top and marginally to the right.

Perspective can add dimension and also a sense of motion. Whilst on a touristic walk around the city of Budapest I remember seeing a tram stop briefly along side me. By adjusting the zoom and the angle I managed to get all the lines from the building and tram converging in the bottom left hand corner of the photograph. The full set of Budapest photos can be found on my Pbase site.