Digital Home Thoughts: Photo 101 - Camera Controls

Well, for starters, if you take a wide-angle setting and take a photo of your loved ones at a really close range, I don't think they're going to be very impressed.

There'll be times where you'll want to play on the perspectives to get interesting images. Sometimes you want to exaggerate them:


Taken at a focal length equivalent to 20mm on a 35mm film camera. I decided to highlight the towering aspects of the trees, so I chose to use the wider 20mm instead of the 28mm in my kit.

Sometimes you want to flatten them:


Taken at a focal length equivalent to 400mm on a 35mm film camera. The distance from the closet meerkat to the farthest was about a metre, but by using a long telephoto it looks like they're almost side by side.

And other times you just want it to look natural:


Taken at a focal length equivalent to 50mm on a 35mm film camera.

There're a lot of things you can do with just changing the perspectives, so do experiment!