Two For The Price Of One

The equipment you own may have multiple uses

Russ Burden

Published November 30, 2015
Updated July 27, 2016

A telephoto lens makes far away subjects appear a lot closer, but did you know it exaggerates compression so subjects that are far apart from each other have the look of being much closer?

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