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FEATURED WEB TUTORIAL: LANDSCAPES
 

Landscapes: Creating the Illusion of Depth

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One of the creative problems inherent in all photographs is that they're flat.

Photographs exist in only two dimensions--they have height and width, but no depth. While a landscape may spread across miles, your photographs are only as deep as the paper they're printed on. The lack of a third dimension means it's up to you to create a believable illusion of distance in your photographs.

While you can't get such intense a three-dimensional experience from an ordinary photograph, there are some visual tricks (also known as "depth cues") you can exploit to enhance the sensation of distance in your photographs. Knowing how depth is created is particularly useful in landscape photographs because one of the things you're trying to relate is the physical space involved....
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