Emphasis on subject size relative to its surroundings for your pictures. It is quite often that whenever we tell others of the sights and scenes encountered during our vacation trips abroad, the conversations usually turn to "the largest, widest, biggest, amazing, outrageous and smallest" examples. But the majority of us failed to show these "wonders" exactly the way we saw them with our own eyes. The holiday pictures of such scenes often fail to really show the size of the wonderful sights that one has described to family members, relatives, neighbors and friends. It is cases like these that you should keep an open mind to capture the size of whatever scene you have seen during your holiday trips in your pictures. Otherwise, all the descriptions of "how big or how grand" they were, maybe quite meaningless. Of course, there are some subject matters that may be too large to fit into whole frame, especially if you don't have a wide enough focal length to really fit everything into one shot. These will be few and rare. Also, there are other ways to emphasize the size of the subject matters by comparing them with their surroundings. The average height for an adult is 160cm (never mind if there are some that are shorter or taller than this), so one excellent way to describe the size of the sights/scenes encountered is to include the relative proportion of the people to the surroundings in your pictures. Take a look at these photos, shot in Las Vegas, Nevada. The first (below, top left), of the escalator entrance towards The Forum Shop of Caesars' Palace, show just how big the size of the arch surrounding it in relation to the visitors in the middle. Next (top right) is another monument promoting The Forum Shop, with the physical shape of the visitors beside it giving you an idea of how big the structure really is. Entrance to Forum Shop Monument of Forum Shop     Escalator corridor of Bally's Main entrance to Circus Circus Hotel The escalator entrance to and from Bally's Casino Hotel (above, lower left) is another example that shows you how large and long it really is. A slower shutter speed was used to create a sense of motion by blurring the movement of the people on the opposite lane. The main entrance of the Circus Circus Hotel (above, lower right) with several automobiles parked outside, as well as several passers-by, shows exactly the huge area that greets visitors to the casino. Pictures speaks a thousand words, so if you are among those that subscribe to "let the action do the talking" routine, shots like these exemplify the "a picture is worth a thousand words" adage. All four images were shot with a single focal length 28mm wide-angle lens. << Back to Main . 1 . 2 . 3 . 4 . 5 .