Originally Posted by neuroanatomist
Here's a cut and paste to illustrate -thatis perspective distortion.
I don't think I entirely agree with you on this one. Yes I believe the 17mm gives you a little bit of distortion, but not in the way you make it seem like. I do agree that for instance 50mm would give you a more natural look. Hmm a little test would come in handy here [A] Same framing and composition, different focal lengths(and therefor some foot-zooming).
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I believe you did pretty well. Just think of it this way, when you stood over there, the cars looked pretty much like they do in your shot.
Back to John[:P]I think the best example of perspective distortion is the sun or the moon. Effectively they are always just as far from the earth. But how does it happen that somethimes the moon or sun looks enormously big?.. Perspective distortion [:P] In your mind you have the idea of a moon being an enormous planet you can see at night which looks like a small ball, however, the closer the moon gets to the horizon, the bigger it seems. In fact it's just as far away, relatively and so it should be just as big. The fact that you see the moon in context close to objects that you know the size of, the moon seems a lot bigger, because unintentionally you compare the item you know the size of with the moon. Same counts for the sun. I believe that's called perspective distortion, but if I'm wrong, please correct me []
Jan
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