Issue 2024.01

A Deeper Frame

Churchill, Manitoba, 2021. Lighting the foreground with a simple flashlight can give us both greater foreground interest and a greater sense of visual depth. Using a wider focal length, in this case 16mm, helps too, but only if you can see that foreground.
Churchill, Manitoba, 2021 Lighting the foreground with a simple flashlight can give us both greater foreground interest and a greater sense of visual depth. Using a wider focal length, in this case 16mm, helps too, but only if you can see that foreground.

↑ Churchill, Manitoba, 2021 Lighting the foreground with a simple flashlight can give us both greater foreground interest and a greater sense of visual depth. Using a wider focal length, in this case 16mm, helps too, but only if you can see that foreground.

3 Ways to Give Your Photos More Depth

Words and Images by David duChemin

The moment you press the shutter and make a photograph you flatten a world of three dimensions into two. Your chosen perspective is frozen forever, the foreground collapsed against the background into a space as thin as the media on which you print your work. But, incredibly, the feeling of depth—maybe more accurately, the illusion of depth—doesn't always disappear.

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Wild Eye 2024.01 Issue Magazine Cover with drop shadow featuring Paul Nicklen on Photography as Conservation, Ted Orland Looks at Landscapes, Reuben Wu Explores iPhone Photography, Developing Style with Erin Babnik

2024.01

Contents

  1. Paul Nicklen on Keeping the Wild in Wildlife Photography
  2. Why Ansel Adams Still Inspires (& Confounds) Photographers Today
  3. Reuben Wu’s Otherworldly Landscapes Were Shot with an iPhone
  4. How to Develop Style in Outdoor Photography
  5. What Photographers Can Learn from Fish
  6. 3 Ways to Give Your Photos More Depth
  7. What’s In Wildlife Photographer Anupam Thombre’s Camera Bag?
  8. Why Monterey Bay Is Great for Photography
  9. How This Incredible Image of Tiny Diatoms Was Captured