Some Perspective

[Dvir Barkay]

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There was a group of school girls at the site, I mean there are alot of people there each day, and they decided to run laps around the ruin. I saw them coming and I was then busy taking the more intamate shots, but thought it would be cool to capture them running across the pyramid and so I lowered the shutter speed so they would be blurred a bit and zoomed out to show them next to the structure. Yes there is a little bit of a tilt to the ground that the pyramid sits on so it looks a bit funny. Also wide angles when tilted do there dirty work with distortion so it makes the building look like it is leaning a tad bit.

A700, Sony 16-50/2.8, Chichen Itza in Mexico, 2015

[Diane Miller]

Interesting idea! If you could have played director, it would have been fun to get them closer to you so they were bigger. But it works this way, with them being a surprise element that you notice after seeing the vast pyramid, and this does give a sense of the scale.

[Andrew McLachlan]

Nice use of the human element to give a sense of scale to this scene Dvir!