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necessary only to change the foreground and background area coverage. You need a wide
angle lens to cover a large foreground subject from a close distance, and you need the tel-
ephoto to cover the same foreground subject in the same size from farther away. It is the dif-
ferent distances that determine the perspective.
Figure 14-25 Telephoto perspective. A long telephoto lens with polarizing fi lter enlarged
the mountains dramatically so they became a dominant part of the picture and produce a
majestic size relationship to the sunlit church in the southern part of Switzerland. Since the
mountains are a dominant part of the image, the lens was set to keep them within the depth
of fi eld range. (Photo by Ernst Wildi.)
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