Cary Wolinsky and Bob Caputo have a combined 64 years of
experience photographing stories for National Geographic and
other publications. Along the way, they learned a thing or two
about making photographs. In 2010, they launched PixBoomBa.com,
which, through videos and illustrated text, imparts photo-making
tips with insight, humor, and varying degrees of success. It’s
good to have a little perspective—to know where you stand and
just how big (or small) your world and the things in it are.
Most pictures we see include something we recognize—a person, a
house, a car, or something else that we already know the size
of. Like leaves. We think we know what size leaves are. And
usually we’re right. But the man in the picture above makes us
go, "Whoa, those leaves are really huge." Even if the rest of
the photograph is of something we have never seen before, one
familiar object gives our minds a clue and we can then easily
work out the sizes of everything else. That’s why you often see
pictures of fishermen holding