Balance: Radial & One-point Perspective 

By Peter Thoeny, one of our Digital Photo Academy instructors in San Francisco.

Ask, how can radial lines make a scene stand out?

Example: Ask, how can radial lines make a scene stand out? Stanley Kubrick, the master of one-point perspective movie scenes

 Example : Look up for one-point perspective

Example: Look up with 210º fisheye lens for one-point perspective

Example: One-point perspective with motion blur added in post; New York City

Example: One-point perspective in Grand Hotel Majestic, a classic hotel in Verbania, Italy

Example: One-point perspective looking down, using tripod to extend my arms; Grand Hotel Majestic, a classic hotel in Verbania, Italy

Example: One-point perspective with a twist, old Verbania, Italy

Example: One-point perspective on a road in Idaho

Example: One-point perspective on a grand scale, taken with fisheye lens; Glacier Lagoon, Iceland

CC BY-NC-SA 4.0, © Peter Thoeny, Quality HDR Photography, http://bit.ly/qualityHDR

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