Happy Sunday! This week, it’s John’s turn to host Lens-Artists Challenge and for challenge #403, he’s decided to focus on another set of tools for photo composition – Perspective, Depth, and Scale.
There’s been quite a number of TV shows and movies that takes place in Seattle and what do all of them have in common? They are have a view of the Space Needle. I once heard someone say you can see the Space Needle from anywhere in Downtown Seattle. Not sure if that’s entire true. If someone’s proven this, let me know.
The first time I spotted the Space Needle was when I was at the Museum of History and Industry (MoHaI). I believe I was about a mile away. The second time was when I was walking up to it, and the third time was when I saw it on a cruise around the bay. I think it gives a sense of scale of just how prominent this structure is and just how different it looks when you’re right there beneath the structure.
I decided to make the second gallery all about trees. Perspective definitely matters when photographing trees, depending on what you want to showcase. For me, most of the time, I want to showcase the size of the trees.
The first photo is one of favorite photos of trees. I didn’t even bother shooting up. One look and I knew my composition was at the trunk level. For the other photos, I aimed to shoot high, to show just how massive these trees are and I love all the branching in the second photo and the color in the third photo.
I hope you all enjoyed seeing photos from my perspective.
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I can’t confirm your comment about seeing the needle from anywhere downtown, but on our few visits to Seattle I’ve never failed to see it at least once, and I always grab a photo if the composition warrants.Those trees are beautiful. I struggle to compose images of the giants. They are either a photo of tree trunks or of trees in receding perspective to the sky for me. Your first tree image doesn’t feel out of place because the subject is the small tree surrounded by older generations.
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Yinglin, great collection for the challenge. I love the trees.
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Thank you for sharing these beautiful photos from your perspective.
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Ah, such memories of the space needle. I lived in Seattle on the slope of Queen Anne Hill for 15 years. The Space Needle, downtown, Elliot Bay, and Mt. Rainier were my view. It was hard to beat. I think that how one defines downtown would be important and also what floor the viewer is on because the hills on the south end of downtown would make a difference.
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