Flatten your perspective

We all have our own perspective on the world, and camera lenses aim to replicate these optical viewpoints as faithfully as possible. To record in a photograph what we see with our eyes, we choose the appropriate lens for the job, whether it has a fixed or adjustable focal range.

But you can also use specific lenses to move away from simply reproducing a scene, instead flattening or ‘compressing’ it. And one of the best ways to achieve a flattened perspective for