Schaub was photographing at an antique auto show when she
decided to put a 17mm lens on her Minolta X-700 camera. For this
unique point of view she photographed at about a foot from the
front wheel and tilted the camera to encompass the entire car.
This created severe distortion of the wheel. The effect was
enhanced by using an aperture of f/22 to ensure sharpness
throughout the picture plane. © 2003, Grace Schaub, All Rights
Reserved We judge near and far, big and small by our innate
sense of perspective. A sort of visual grammar, it orders the
world around and ensures that we can get where we're going and
that when we reach out to touch we'll have a tactile rather than
virtual experience. In photography, and all visual arts, the
relationship of foreground and background is established by the
relative size of subjects within the picture's two-dimensional
plane. Barry Staver made this image while working on a British
Airways in-flight magazine assignment about raising buffalo.
This image was made with a Nikon