Awhile back I started this whole perspective series in which I talked about getting down low when you shoot. I'm hitting it from a different angle today and not talking about angles at all but rather about the distortion that can occur when shooting with a wide angle lens. (I'll tackle other lenses like tele-photo etc. later on)
We all know that one way our eyes perceive near or far is by the relative size of an object. Quite simply, our mind tells us that objects farther away appear smaller and the farther away, the smaller an object looks to us. Got that?
In photography, perspective is identified in just this same way.