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<blockquote data-quote="J-see" data-source="post: 541817" data-attributes="member: 31330">If you want to believe the perspective of a shot has nothing to do with vanishing points, be my guest.If vanishing points are too &quot;hypothetical&quot; for photographers (about all landscape and architecture photography is based upon it), I assume shooting identical shots at relative positions using hypothetical lenses and sensors in order to crop to identical proportions is more &quot;real world&quot; to them.I can't even make sense of the &quot;where you stand&quot; argument.Take a baseball, put it on a table and shoot it with a 14mm at closest distance. Now you take a 600mm and reproduce that shot. You can stand wherever you desire to take the exact same shot with the exact same perspective distortion.I can easily shoot a portrait in front of a building with my 600mm that has only one vanishing point but when going shorter in focal length, more of the building comes into the scene and it shifts from a one point to two or even three if I go short enough. Those differences in perspective simply can not be accomplished with another focal length while maintaining the same subject magnification.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="J-see, post: 541817, member: 31330"] If you want to believe the perspective of a shot has nothing to do with vanishing points, be my guest. If vanishing points are too "hypothetical" for photographers (about all landscape and architecture photography is based upon it), I assume shooting identical shots at relative positions using hypothetical lenses and sensors in order to crop to identical proportions is more "real world" to them. I can't even make sense of the "where you stand" argument. Take a baseball, put it on a table and shoot it with a 14mm at closest distance. Now you take a 600mm and reproduce that shot. You can stand wherever you desire to take the exact same shot with the exact same perspective distortion. I can easily shoot a portrait in front of a building with my 600mm that has only one vanishing point but when going shorter in focal length, more of the building comes into the scene and it shifts from a one point to two or even three if I go short enough. Those differences in perspective simply can not be accomplished with another focal length while maintaining the same subject magnification. [/QUOTE]

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