Look at this photo for a bit, and see if you can spot it.
It's only been very slightly cropped, so that's not it.
I really like the colours and textures of this wall, and wanted to have the lamp in the top-left corner for balance and interest. (Everything is relative.) But I also like flat picture space, and that lamp placement would create single-point perspective. More simply: you should be able to see the right side of the lamp since it's on the left side of the frame. Some people see reality, I see a problem to be solved.
I wonder if this photo bugs anyone now that I've pointed out that it defies our actual experience of the world.
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I just assumed you had used a long lens from distance--looks normal enough to me from that mindset until the 'hover' reveals a 35mm lens was used.
I had a chance to show this to a few other photographers tonight, and none of them thought it looked odd, either. I find that reassuring.
The 35mm lens is a perspective-control Nikon, which I used on my GH1 for a 70mm equivalent field of view, so there is some compression going on. But to take this photo I eliminated the perspective by standing directly in front of the light, and then shifted the lens up and to the right to get the composition that I liked.
I've used the same trick with my D700 and 85mm PC lens to avoid my own reflection when shooing through glass, but these days I'm reading a book on cinematography that has me thinking more about perspective and the depiction of depth.
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