Because Rebecca is due to have our baby "any time now," I wanted to post the weekly assignment early, just in case we end up spending this weekend at the hospital.
The assignment for the week of 21 – 27 July is “Atmospheric Perspective,” which will be the second in a three part exploration of techniques for conveying and controlling the perception of depth in a scene.
As we talked about in the intro to the "Linear Perspective" assignment, "atmospheric perspective" deals with how the appearance of an object changes when we view it from a distance. Moisture, dust and pollution in the air interfere with light transmission and result in objects in the distance having less contrast, less saturated colors, and “hazy” or blurry detail. We subconsciously use these visual cues to perceive these “hazy” objects as being far off in the distance.
Your image submissions for this assignment should use these atmospheric effects to establish a sense of distance and depth in the scene. This will be most effective when used in conjunction with the techniques already discussed in the "linear perspective" assignment.
We will explore “controlling perspective through focal length selection” in a follow-on assignment.
As always, have fun! Please upload your images to the “Atmospheric Perspective” album in the “Weekly Assignments” category by midnight Mountain Standard Time (GMT -07:00) on Sunday, 27 July 2008.
Keith
