The Limbo Connection's photos with the keyword: packed perspective

I have exhibited this before, but not previously without cropping it smaller. Now I can see how attractive and historically sympathetic the National Trust car park gate actually is, I must post afresh. It was shot with the equivalent of 300mm focal length. That's why Silbury Hill looks so close and imposing. It's not really like that when viewed with the naked eye. Nikon D2Xs + Nikkor 55-200mm f/4-5.6G.

Nikon D40 + Nikkor AF-S 70-300mm f4.5-5.6 VR lens. Using this lens at full stretch in combination with a D40 provides the full-frame equivalent of 450mm focal length.

Nikon D2Xs + Nikkor 24-120mm f/3.5-5.6 AF-D IF lens. Even on a crop-sensor camera such as the Nikon D2Xs the Nikkor 24-120mm f/3.5-5.6 AF-D IF lens provides a decent range of focal lengths. When this lens was first introduced it was nick-named the 'street sweeper' because it met nearly all photographic opportunities.

Nikon D2Xs + Tamron AF 70-210mm f/2.8 SP LD lens.

Photographed in Avebury, Wiltshire, using a Nikon D2Xs with a Nikon TC-16A teleconverter and a Nikkor-H Auto 300mm f/4.5 lens from around 1971. The TC-16A is compatible with only a small number of cameras and although Nikon doesn’t officially recognise the D2X as one of them, it nevertheless operates successfully. The Nikkor-H has been factory AI converted, making a functional set of instruments never really envisaged to harmonise. The TC-16A adds 1.6x to the lens it is mated with, so in this case the focal length was 480mm. You really need a fast shutter speed and a bit of stabilisation using a rig this long. I put it on a monopod and the shutter speed was 1/1500th. Mostly you’re forced into using maximum aperture and ISO even in decent light. The results can be mediocre, but now and again you get a sensation of unusual packed perspective. Of course, perspective depends on where you stand, not which lens you use, but you might never choose a tiny area of a picture to enlarge and get this view.