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Understanding parallax

Understanding parallax

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Understanding parallax

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- I often hear photographers talking about lens compression. The notion that your distance from the subject changes the compression of the scene. But I don't hear photographers talking about parallax all that much, unless I hear them talking about capturing a composite panorama, where you want to make sure that you're rotating the camera around the nodal point of the lens because of parallax concerns. But what exactly is parallax and why is it helpful to think about parallax, at least as a general concept, when it comes to composition? Well, parallax essentially is a change in perspective based on your lateral position. So, for example, this lens is, from your viewpoint, mostly blocked by the lens in front of it, but if you were to move over to the side, then you would get a different perspective and you'd be able to see one lens appearing from behind the other lens. And so, when we're photographing in the real world,…

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