Photo composition comes naturally or it can be learned. This week John has a great tutorial for us. For some of us, it’s a new tool and for some it’s something we’ve been doing. However, for some, including me, we’ve been using these three tools without knowing it!

Let’s take depth first. That is most important to help our two dimensional art seem three dimensional. Are you enticed to walk through those open door rooms to the end? Or maybe walk down to the end of the ramp?

Next scale.

We have climbers at a practice rock. That’s still a high climb for me! Their images help show scale in the image. Then we have a reflection showing the scale of this tall building in downtown Sacramento.

Next perspective.

Living in California I would be remis not to show perspective using our giant Sequoias. Here we have a redwood with my friend Jean providing perspective at the Calaveras Big Trees State Park. If you’ve ever visited Sequoia National Park, you’ve seen the iconic General Sherman. This family was taking pictures and I just joined in.

So there you have it, and I posted just the six images allowed. I’m sure we all had more.

Thanks John, for a review and education this week. When you respond, please link your post to John’s original and use the Lens-Artists tag. There were so many wonderful wonders for Sofia’s challenge last week. I enjoyed them all. Next week, Beth will be leading the challenge, so look for her post. In the meantime, stay safe and be resilient.

39 thoughts on “Lens Artists Challenge #403: Composition Tools–Perspective, Depth and Scale”

  4. Anne, your images are excellent for illustrating perspective, depth and scale. I love that you chose the giant Sequoia and Redwood to show scale. I thought about that, too! I really like the hallway of doors, too.

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  7. All good examples for the challenge Anne 🙂 I think my favourites are that long corridor and the rock climbers – the latter really do add a sense of scale to what looks a pretty high climb to me!

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  9. There’s nothing like those giant sequoias to make us feel scale. And the endless doors, I would be walking and walking to see just how far it goes. Exceptional photos.

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  11. Anne, sorry for the late response. For some reason, you post was in my spam folder this morning. I forgot to check the folder yesterday. Yours and another post were there.Your examples are excellent in demonstrating the challenge and how photographers use these principles, even without actually defining them.

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  17. Beautiful set. The practice rock photo was very interesting: your viewpoint being closer to the top, the person at the bottom looks smaller than the one at the top. The reversal of perspective forces one look at it again.

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