Photographing Nature: A photo workshop from Brooks Institute’s top nature photography instructor

Chapter 11. Looking through the frame

How to make your camera see things the way you do.

The frame

The photographer’s view of the world is limited, boxed within the frame of the camera and constrained to its single lens. We can rotate the frame, but we can’t change its size unless we change the size of the camera. With only one “eye,” the lens can’t see depth, as humans can with our stereoscopic vision. We’re capturing images through a one-eyed box (FIG. 11.1).

Figure 11.1. At the end of a day of diving off Santa Cruz Island, we anchored the boat near ...