Play with perspective
Lukas Knop

Play with perspective

October 2017

Crowd
winner

2,895 Images entered

2,183 Photographers

142,237 Ratings

Entry 1026946
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Expert
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Entry 1056958
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We really love the creative perspective that the photographer has skilfully shot this image with. The ball has been frozen in mid air and the tension of the scene has been captured beautifully. This is a very intelligent twist on a street photography capture and gives a unique view of what could have been quite an ordinary scene. What we really want to know is if the ball actually went in?!

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The swirling lines in this stunning black and white image lead the viewers eyes around the image and to the central subject. St Paul’s is such a vastly photographed and iconic structure and this image taken from an alternative perspective is very striking.

The extremely low angle that this shot was taken at has created a really interesting perspective. The lamppost looks almost bigger than the tall building and really dominates the scene. The beautifully blurred sky helps to tie the image together.

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Brief

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Perspective is important – a perspective is a certain way of considering something, whether it’s a political viewpoint or just simply the way that you look at an object or scene. In photography perspective refers to the relationship between the objects within the frame – primarily their position, size and spacing. Learning how perspective affects the elements in an image is one of the most important things for photographers to master. The human brain will determine the scale and depth of the objects in an image by determining their relationship to each other – so photographers use perspective to demonstrate the depth and sense of scale in a scene or to distort and emphasise it. Change your perspective and capture something from a new angle, shoot with a different lens and create abstract scenes by harnessing the power of distortion, or simply just take a new approach. We want to see you play with the perspective in your imagery and submit the best results for the chance

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