Scale Photography

Scale Photography

    Scale photography is very popular shot because people unknown about photography also can shot better .Scale photography gives the person looking at your photograph a frame of reference. Scale is often an under-utilized technique in photography. In fact, many beginners in photography will even go so far as to remove people from a landscape photo thinking people in the image detract from the view. When in fact having people in your landscape photos can often be great!

 

        For example, above the picture look at how much better this image is because there is a person in the foreground

   Scale is the ratio of a distance on an aerial photograph to that same distance on the ground in the real world.Sometimes can related to the right composition shot with the image represent  scale . Another approach would be to associate something of large size to something of small size or known size. In the case of a huge waterfall, contrasting the fall with a bridge, which in turn can be related to the size of a human, can portray the proper sense of scale.

    Scale is a great technique to improve your images and shouldn’t be overlooked. You can even have fun with it like this. As humans we need scaled to know how large and small the surround world is. In photography it helps us to enjoy the image instead of adding mental work to figure out the size of various elements.

   This photograph of two men standing at the bottom of a very large ship in a dry dock is a really stunning example of scale in photography. Using scale in photography is very important because as humans our minds figure out the size of our surrounding world in various ways.

     Of course your brain knows the size of a human and in this case that means that is one HUGE ship.

References : youtube -scale and polarizing filters

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