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France, Région Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, Rhône, Lyon, Croix-rousse, Place Bellevue.
La place Bellevue est bordée au nord par le fort Saint Laurent, vestige des fortifications qui défendaient Lyon et propriété du service de santé des armées.
Sometimes it's just our perspective. We've been in Denmark for two weeks...in the middle of looking for a house/flat and it can seem overwhelming. So just a reminder...it's just our perspective.
Zabriskie Point, Death Valley
There are moments in life when I realize, often later than I'd like, that I've been so wrapped up in something that I lost perspective. I had one of those moments this morning and when I saw this imagine in my cue, it was a perfect example of how something massive can look so small without a little perspective.
The Stoa of Attalos, at the Ancient Agora of Athens right under the Acropolis Hill, seen with perspective.
“To change ourselves effectively, we first had to change our perceptions.”
― Stephen R. Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
The challenge this time is Tilt Shift..... however I do not own a tilt shift lens or a lensbaby, and I want to try something in-camera. After googling ideas, I came across a technique I had never heard of and honestly would not have thought would work. It's called free-lensing.
Literally free-lensing means detaching your lens, and holding it near the camera body. You can slightly tilt &/or shift the lens relative to the camera to alter the plane of focus. I was amazed at the outcomes. Getting the focus is difficult, especially when your point of focus is far (like mine was). Macro seems a bit easier to master as you can just gets closer to the image (I didn't feel like jumping off my balcony). Moving objects (i.e. my cats) were impossible to photograph with this technique at my current skill level. The light leaks were actually visually appealing and depending on the degree of tilt the bokeh that filled the image was lovely. The sharpness of the focal point was hard to achieve, but that may be my technique.
The hardest part is getting over the fear of dropping the lens (in this case off my 28th floor balcony)..... Note that I did not pull an accident like one of our beloved accident-prone Flickr stars (I won't name names, he knows who he is!! lol).
Moral of the story.... if you are brave enough to death grip your lens, are away from significant dust/dirt/water/etc that could damage your camera/lens, and want to try a fun new technique I recommend giving it a try!
Perspective - (per-spek-tiv)
a.The relationship of aspects of a subject to each other and to a whole.
b.The technique of representing three-dimensional objects and depth relationships on a two-dimensional surface
#25/365
Not even a month yet into this 365...I hope I can keep coming up with interesting things to photograph. I think by the end of the year you will be able to take all my photos and reconstruct a 1 mile radius of my neighborhood (and disnyland of course).
This week, I'm taking a break from work. Time for rest, renewal, and family. I'm off to a good start.
In photography, looking in a different perspective can give a unique image. Same in real life, doing something in a new perspective can bring you a whole new experience and learning.
Life's perspective - walking in the grass we will probably miss a small mushroom, however if you get down to ground level, the perspective changes and you will see a new world. Same is with life.
The spacial relationship between objects in a photograph is perspective. Use perspective as our point of view In order to create a sense of dimension
It pays to look up. Admittedly, when I went to the Archaeological Museum in Istanbul (where this was taken), it was largely the exhibits I had in mind to photograph.
However, this was pretty spectacular. As I recall, there weren't any particularly dazzling exhibits in this section...but perhaps that was because they didn't want to distract from the architecture? :-)
You can see more shots of this historic city in my Istanbul set.