Basic Composition Tips; Size

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When we take the pictures of an architectural or natural structure, it can be hard for viewers to understand the size of the structure, unless there are clues inside the frame such as a person, car, an animal etc. These objects help us measure the dimensions of the subject more easily.

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Seeing a scene in photograph is different than seeing the same scene in person. When you see the scene in person actually you easily understand the sizes of the objects in the scene, because you are looking from eye-level from a person ( it is you in this case ). This allows you to compare the things with your size and understand how big or small they are. But in photographs actually a huge building or structure can be photographerd from sky and look like as it is small (if there are no people, cars etc. around it) or a tiny model of a ship can look enormous. Bur if you include some clues for your viewers, you can tell them how big or small is this subject. It is better to show it with examples;

In the picture above, you see the top floors of an old skyscraper in New York City. there’s no clue in this picture to tell the viewers how big or tall is the building. SO this is a mistake in terms of establishing the size. (Actually i didn’t want to show the size in this picture, instread i wanted to show it smaller than it is. I made this mistake on purpose, so it is not a mistake, kind of…)

But in this picture mountain-biker help us to understand the size of the rock that he is standing on.