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Pull background forward (alien.top)

submitted 2 years ago by TheBigTypoon@alien.top to c/photography@viewfinder.pro

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What is the trick people use to pull the background closer to the foreground, when there's a linear division between the two, and a subject in the middle?

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[–] ApatheticAbsurdist@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago

Get very far away with a very long lens. It's controlling perspective... the closer you are to something the larger it appears. If you are very close to something and the background is very far away that something will appear much larger than the background. If you get very far away so that the object is closer to the background that it is to you (relatively), they will appear to be closer in scale. But when you get far away you need a longer focal length lens to zoom in. This work on any scale from small objects to the moon (though with the moon you have to get a good mile or so away with an insanely large lens)