Posted by LenNH on May 05, 2008 at 06:17:36 from (65.96.146.183):
Here's a tip on photos. Not from a "pro," but a 40-plus year "avid amateur": Digital cameras typically have zooms that go from "wide-angle" to "telephoto." When you use the wide-angle setting up close, everything close to the lens is magnified out of proportion to whatever is behind it. Take a person with an arm outstretched toward the camera and you get a hand that may appear as big as the face. The same will happen if you take a fairly close-up shot of a tractor. From the side, the rear wheels will appear too big for the tractor. From the front, the radiator will seem too wide.
Another problem with the wide-angle is that if the camera is TIPPED a little bit, vertical lines will appear to be tilted inward or outward, depending on which way the camera is tipped. This is why so many of those great shots we took on our vacations show buildings with walls that lean toward each other. Here is a very easy way to avoid both these problems: ZOOM OUT and back away if you can. The telephoto settings minimize the "too-close too-big" look AND reduce the chances of getting vertical lines to lean inward or outward. With the digital camera, it costs nothing to experiment. A few minutes trying a few pictures at different zoom settings will give you an idea of what your camera will do. Some of the effects I'm talking about don't show up very well on the tiny digital screens, so you may have to put them on the computer screen to see the results of your experiments. Before the digitals became all the rage, photographers usually had to change lenses to go from very wide-angle to telephoto (some zooms did both). It was a common photographic trick to use a fairly wide-angle lens to distort things in the way I talk about above. Usually, this was deliberate. Today, we don't often think about whether our digital lens is "wide-angle," "normal" or "telephoto." The effects are there, but we just don't think about them. I've taken quite a few pictures of buildings with tilting walls, or of people whose hands are bigger than their faces, before learning that I had to stop and think about the effect I wanted. It's fun to experiment, it's fun to play tricks with the camera, AND it's fun to get exactly what you want to show. Hope this is helpful.
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