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The Tuesday Composition: Telephoto Compression

October 27th, 2009 - By Joe Decker

Posted In: Jules Cafe Shared Feeds, Shooting.

Layers, Yosemite National Park, California. A classic viewpoint, 300mm focal length. While we intellectually understand that the elements of this image are at quite different distances from the camera, telephoto compression seems to take away some of the cues our brain uses to perceive depth.

Just as I often turn to wide-angle lenses when I want to create images with a sense of depth and perspective, when I purposefully want to lose a sense of depth, when I want to compress …

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