Before and After Pictures Getting a photograph to accurately show what the eye actually sees is particularly difficult as the camera records everything in the frame of the picture and the eye sees what we are specifically looking at. The way we view a scene means that what we are specifically looking at, or any particularly noticeable component of the scene are the details that register in the mind. Many people will had the experience of taking a photograph of a bird or some other object which looked close when viewed with the eye but when the picture is printed the object comes out as a disappointingly small dot in the middle of the picture. This phenomenon is exploited by developers in their presentations where they very often use a standard 50mm lens and make up a scene from three photographs to give a panoramic view. This is a very unrealistic view of what the eye sees. To see these types of scene in reality would require the viewer to turn their head through almost 90 degrees to fully appreciate the scene whereas the photograph can be seen in one take. The wind farm will look incredibly small in such a photograph even though there has been no manipulation of the scale and in every respect the representation is technically accurate what one sees is an optical illusion. The
picture was taken from the far side of Loch Greshornish looking
towards the campsite using some zoom on the lens to try to simulate
more accurately what the eye actually sees. While a zoom lens makes
the turbines look a little closer than they do when observed by
the eye the relative height of turbines and hills is not altered.
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