The Power of Distance and Zoom
Something wonderous recently, I watched a photograph subject shrink after she finished off a bowl of porridge!
Here we see Sakura before her meal.
And here she is after!
Well, maybe it didn’t happen quite like that.
But the effect can be powerful when shown to someone unfamiliar with the technique.
The first photograph is a macro photograph, with a high focal length. (Um, did this mean the camera was zoomed and the figure farther, or the figure was closer with no zooming? I have forgotten…) The macro mode creates a blurry background, while keeping the subject in focus.
The second photograph is a typical snapshot.
Even taking a close-up macro photographs of a small figure can fascinate someone when they see the small figure held beside the large photograph on a computer monitor.
Are the shadows over Sakura’s eyes too dark in these photographs? I must pay more attention, and find ways to decrease the amount of dark shadow over a character’s face. I’ll keep photographing, and I’ll continue to learn more!