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Let's assume you are 10 feet away from your friend Joe and take his picture in portrait orientation with a 50mm lens. Say there is a building 100 feet behind Joe. The building is 10X the distance from the camera as Joe is, so if Joe is 6 feet tall and the building is 60 feet tall they will appear to be the same height in your photo, because both would occupy ...
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If you think about it for a minute without the lens it should make sense. If you are standing near someone, they block a larger portion of your your field of view and so the background you see behind them is further out to the sides (because they block a larger portion of your field of view.
If you were standing right next to them, you wouldn't be able ...
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