Perspective | Isolation {Week 15}

Continuing our focus on perspective this week, Photo 52: Within the Frame sought to isolate our subjects through the use of a telephoto lens or otherwise. Zoom lenses, with their longer focal lengths, magnify the scene and create a shallow depth of field which, in laymen's terms, means that the environment surrounding a subject is compressed and often quite blurred. Lovely portraits occur when the subject remains prominent in the frame and the other elements are reduced.

This past week the weather was either brutally cold (have you heard about the Polar Vortex?) or too rainy to venture outdoors. Therefore a great deal of our play time was within the four walls of our apartment. Below is a detail captured with my 70-200mm telephoto lens of my son landing a jet plane onto his aircraft carrier. Even without his entire face, body or a sharply focused background, the viewer is able to piece together what is happening within a little boy's room, within his greater world of imaginary play.

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