Today, we learned about the use of perspective to create the illusion of depth within a frame. In a frame, there can be multiple perspectives or no perspective; but in creating depth, the commonly known perspectives are one-point perspective, two-point perspective and three-point perspective. The numbers suggested the amount of vanishing points apparent in that one frame.

As a class exercise, we have to walk around ADM building to capture those three perspectives using our cameras. Let’s see what I take:

 

One-point perspective

There is one vanishing point here; that is, at the top of the stairs, which makes it the focus.

 

Two-point perspective

There are two vanishing points here, and they intersect at the corner. Our eyes are naturally drawn to the corner.

 

Three-point perspective

There are three vanishing points now. Usually to create the three-point perspective, we take picture from high eye level or low eye level.