Choosing between presenting a black and white image and present it in color can have its advantages. Both options have their strengths and both have their drawbacks.

The black and white can enhance the expression of a portrait, can accentuate the texture of the object in focus, you can create dramatic and can make focused attention on the object. All these advantages may play us against if we need is just the opposite.

People are still very adept at this preference (especially portraits) and there are great works, personally speaking, color would not impact the same way.

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The control of perspective is the ability to use your digital camera and lenses to control the relationship between the background and foreground of your pictures.

Perspective Pictures

When you’re using a wide-angle lens, the background appears much farther away from your subject than it actually is. With a standard lens, the background appears the same distance away as it does with the naked eye. When using a telephoto lens, the background appears closer. It should also be mentioned that on a wide-angle lens your angle of acceptance is much greater than on a standard or telephoto lens where your angle of acceptance is much less.
This means that with a wide-angle lens, you can sometimes surprise yourself with how much you’ve included in your picture. On the other hand, using a telephoto lens, your subject is more prominent and less of the background is included within your frame.

So, by varying your lenses, and therefore your perspective, you can use the background to complement your pictures or isolate your subject as you require. As I mentioned in an earlier chapter, experiment by shooting a variety of pictures of the same subject with different focal length lenses to help you understand how different focal lengths affect perspective. Remember to move backward and forward in relation to your subject to keep it the same size in all the frames and at all the different focal lengths. Read the rest of this entry