https://pho.tography.org/tags/compression/ Recent content in compression on pho.tography.org Hugo -- gohugo.io en-us Fri, 08 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://pho.tography.org/telephoto-compression-is-not-a-lens-property/ Fri, 08 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://pho.tography.org/telephoto-compression-is-not-a-lens-property/ Compression is one of the most misunderstood effects in photography, routinely attributed to the lens when it belongs entirely to the photographer’s position in space. The phenomenon is straightforward. Stand close to a person with a mountain behind them and the mountain reads as distant, because it is distant relative to where you are standing. The ratio between your distance to the foreground and your distance to the background is large, and the image reflects that gap honestly.