Tip – Balance: Radial & One-point Perspective

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?

A picture containing flooring, screenshot, person, symmetry

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

Looking up at tall trees

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 Example : Look up for one-point perspective

A picture containing building, tree, fisheye lens, window

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Example: Look up with 210º fisheye lens for one-point perspective
A group of people walking in a tunnel

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Example: One-point perspective with motion blur added in post; New York City
A picture containing indoor, wall, stairs, interior design

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

A picture containing stairs, red, building, symmetry

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

A picture containing building, outdoor, window, alley

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Example: One-point perspective with a twist, old Verbania, Italy
A picture containing outdoor, road, sky, scene

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Example: One-point perspective on a road in Idaho

A picture containing landscape, cloud, water, sky

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

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