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How to Use Lens Compression to Make Wildflowers and Mountains Coexist in One Frame
There’s a compositional problem I’ve wrestled with for years, and I suspect you have too. You find a patch of wildflowers or grasses right in front of a mountain range. The scene looks extraordinary to your eye. You put a wide angle on, get low, fill the foreground with the flowers, and the mountains shrink to a thin, forgettable sliver on the horizon. You try moving back to give the mountains more presence, and suddenly the flowers are specks.