jcolwell wrote:
Cropping does not change perspective. Only distance from the subject does that.
You have put your camera on a tripod at some specific camera position.
You use a long lens and limit the angle of view to the desired subject.
Or, lacking a long enough lens to do that, you use a wider lens at this camera position and crop the image to the same angle of view that you would have gotten with the longer lens.
The “distance from the subject” is the same in both examples. There is no change in perspective.
On the other hand, if one puts different focal length lenses on the camera and changes the camera position to make the primary subject appear the same size in both images, the perspective does change.
So, if you took a lens with some focal length and framed your primary subject so that it was the desired size in the frame, then moved the camera back so that it was smaller, and then cropped the image… the perspective would be different. Obviously, it is hard to imagine why anyone would do that!
Jul 26, 2026 at 10:04 PM
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