{"id":3516,"date":"2010-11-10T05:47:00","date_gmt":"2010-11-10T11:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/photos\/how-to-use-your-zoom-lens-as-a-compositional-aid-dps\/"},"modified":"2010-11-10T05:47:00","modified_gmt":"2010-11-10T11:47:00","slug":"how-to-use-your-zoom-lens-as-a-compositional-aid-dps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/photos\/how-to-use-your-zoom-lens-as-a-compositional-aid-dps\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Use Your Zoom Lens as a Compositional Aid (DPS)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nice article by Darren Rowse on the effect of different focal lengths on photo composition, especially the images used to illustrate his point. Zoom isn\u2019t just for bringing a distant object close \u2013 varying zoom lets you vary your distance from the subject, which has a huge impact on the surrounding space and the background. Rowse doesn\u2019t mention <a title=\"link to my entry on bokeh\" href=\"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/photos\/bokeh-and-dof-photomayo\/\">bokeh<\/a>, the term applied to interesting, patterned background, but you can create bokeh by moving away from a close subject and zooming in. (The distance between the subject and the background is also significant.)<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"thistle with bokeh by mark justice hinton - click for more photos\" href=\"http:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/markjusticehinton\/TripToGuatemala2010#\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px\" title=\"thistle with bokeh by mark justice hinton\" border=\"0\" alt=\"thistle with bokeh by mark justice hinton\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-content\/mine\/2010\/11\/DSC08739.jpg\" width=\"644\" height=\"484\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.digital-photography-school.com\/how-to-use-your-zoom-lens-as-a-compositional-aid?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+DigitalPhotographySchool+%28Digital+Photography+School%29\">How to Use Your Zoom Lens as a Compositional Aid<\/a> by Darren Rowse, Digital Photography School<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>You can see this principle illustrated really nicely in the images [at the link]. While the model takes up much the same amount of space in each of the shots \u2013 the five different focal lengths product quite different compositions. None are particularly \u2018bad\u2019 photos \u2013 but each produces very different results.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.digital-photography-school.com\/how-to-use-your-zoom-lens-as-a-compositional-aid?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+DigitalPhotographySchool+%28Digital+Photography+School%29\">How to Use Your Zoom Lens as a Compositional Aid<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nice article by Darren Rowse on the effect of different focal lengths on photo composition, especially the images used to illustrate his point. Zoom isn\u2019t just for bringing a distant object close \u2013 varying zoom lets you vary your distance from the subject, which has a huge impact on the surrounding space and the background. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/photos\/how-to-use-your-zoom-lens-as-a-compositional-aid-dps\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">How to Use Your Zoom Lens as a Compositional Aid (DPS)<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3516\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}