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Phil Douglis | all galleries >> Galleries >> Gallery Twenty: Controlling perspective with the wideangle lens > Fishing Nets, Yangon, Myanmar, 2005
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Fishing Nets, Yangon, Myanmar, 2005

You can readily see how quickly the piles of fishing nets decrease in size as you move from the solidly anchored foreground layer into the middle layer of this image, which features two steps and smaller stacks of nets. That’s because I placed my 24mm lens so close to these nets that it was almost touching them. I knew this close vantage point would create a massive foreground anchor on the left hand side of the picture. The first two layers provide context to the man in the background layer, who becomes the subject of this picture. His rather tentative attitude, and the delicate net he is working on, expresses the point of this picture.


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Phil Douglis05-Mar-2005 17:39
Thanks, Celia, for pointing out the diminishing effect the wideangle lens has had on the man. It does make his job seem more complex and daunting when he is overwhelmed by the scale of those nets. And that is what I had in mind when I took this vantage point. Make the nets as large as I can and put the man into an incongruous scale relationship with them.
Cecilia Lim05-Mar-2005 16:51
I like how you use the wide-angle lens to lead you into the picture and to stress scale. Your wide-angle approach not only anchors the nets, but stresses the size of the nets. The exaggerated perspective causes the man in the background to look even smaller now in comparison to the huge pile of fishing nets. This man looks like he has a daunting task ahead, trying to get the fine, delicate nylon strings he has in his hands to become like the humongous mountain of fishing nets infront of him! A wonderful image about incongruity using wide-angle lenses! Good one Phil!
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