Originally posted by PBandJ I really wanted to know.. If I want this picture, this result...how would I do it.
I still don't really get perspective - any useful links to compare FL and perspectives and resulting photos?
Thanks everyone for the links, and info. I've been following this just not posting.
If you want this result - find a similar scene, go and look through the viewfinder, move around, zoom your zoom or change lenses until you see a similar scene. Then use your DOF preview control and change aperture to get a similar DOF. Then shoot. Or, get those things roughly right, take a whole bunch of trial shots, pick the one that pleases/matches (and file away the lessons for future use)
If you want to learn how to manipulate perspective and DOF try varying one thing at a time and looking at the results, e.g. 1) pick a scene like this and approach with a zoom lens zoomed right in. Walk until the nearer objects have the size you want in the frame. Shoot, then walk forwards, and zoom out to make that object the same size in the frame. Shoot, repeat, until you run out of outward zoom. Then look at the results. (Of course you can do this with a series of primes also..) This IMO is a lot more instructive than a related but still worthwhile experiment, stay in the same spot and zoom in and notice how things get bigger but relative sizes and alignments stay the same. 2) for DOF, in Av or P mode simply take a range of shots with different aperture and view the results. 3) try a sequence of shots taken from ground level up to the highest point of view you can practically manage and see what effect it has.