Blend focal lengths in Affinity Photo

James Paterson creates a balanced landscape by blending two photos - one wide, the other slightly zoomed in - to enlarge distant scenery

Sometimes you can walk away from a location with the gnawing feeling that you didn’t quite find the best angle. It happened to me in Iceland here. I took lots of shots of the famous Kirkjufellsfoss mountain and waterfalls, but it was a struggle to capture the waterfalls and mountain from my position. I simply couldn’t frame the foreground waterfall without leaving the mountain looking puny in the distance, when in the flesh it felt huge and imposing. This is often the case when shooting landscapes with a wide angle lens. We want to capture the details in the foreground, but the exaggerated perspective you get with a wide angle can leave the distant elements in the scene looking small and insignificant. The only way to make the distant details larger…

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N-photo: The Nikon (Digital) - 1 Issue, August 2024

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