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For today’s composition lesson I want to focus on a compositional technique that is more utilized by intermediate/advanced photographers. It is the idea of depth.
What exactly is “depth” anyways? Well, the Merrian-Webster dictionary provides this definition (which we generally think of when it comes to spatial relationships):
- a: the perpendicular measurement downward from a surface
- b: the direct linear measurement from front to back
For the purposes of photography and composition, we will use b (the direct linear measurement from front to back).