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

Marlborough High Street, March 2012

12 May 2024 1 128
Her dress needs to be shortened, or the hem will be ragged and dirty in no time. Perhaps she does not care. Nikon D90, Nikon 55-200mm lens.

Here It Comes Again

31 Aug 2019 4 174
Nikon D40 + AF-S VR Zoom-Nikkor 70-300mm f/4.5-5.6G IF-ED lens at 300mm. The full frame equivalent would be using a lens of 450mm focal length. The effect is to make the perspective appear compressed and packed up. Had I taken this photograph with a wide angle lens instead it would have appeared quite different but the perspective would not have altered. Curiously Bob Newman, who is Professor of Computer Science at the University of Wolverhampton, and a photography enthusiast, camera nut, and regular contributor to the magazine 'Amateur Photographer' ('AP') took a more liberal attitude to perspective in 'AP' of 24 August 2019. But think about it: perspective can depend only on where the viewer is and where the thing being viewed is.

Railway Points on a Wet Day

15 Aug 2019 2 2 148
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.

From a Distance

12 Dec 2016 1 359
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.