Definition Post - Depth

Definition Post

Depth: The distance from the top or surface of something to its bottom.

Words that can be used to describe 'depth':

- Steep
- Deep
- Long
- Tower
- Never ending
- Fathomless

Four annotated online pictures:

This photograph of a guitar is a photograph demonstrating depth. It displays depth through the angle it's been taken, as the audience are aware that this guitar has more to it than just what's being shown. It looks as though the strings on the guitar gather closer together the further they travel upwards, this is not the case. Because of the angle that this photograph has been shot from, it's deceiving. The strings that seem to have less space inbetween them only exhale this perception because they are not in focus. Rather than the picture being taken looking down on the strings, it has been taken looking through them; how most pictures are captured when on a mission to illustrate depth.

Only three apples have been used in this photograph, but this is enough to display the depth it  produces. The apple behind the first is a lot more blurred than the apple in focus, and the apple behind the second is even more blurred than the two infront. This focuses the audiences attention on the main apple in the foreground, whilst still realising that this photograph has depth. All three apple's have the same length of shadow, and this shadow proves how the apples are all around about the same size even if the picture tells a different story, by demonstrating depth.

The female in this photograph is the subject. She is who the audience focus on when studying this image. Although depth may not be the main focal point, it still performs a large contribution to this photograph. As it may seem as though the train track she's laying on grows smaller and smaller the further away it becomes, it gives the impression that the woman would look the same as she does in this photograph as she would laying further down the train track. Depth causes this assumption, because the train track in the background is actually equal in size with the train track in the foreground.

In this photograph you can just about see three or four of the yellow markings in the middle of the road, as it's been taken from an angle close to the ground, again, looking 'through' the road. A lot of the road has been covered in this photograph, so it could come across as an illusion as to why we can only notice about three or four of the markings. You can probably guess the reason behind this 'illusion'. Yes, depth. Another perfect example of a photograph illustrating depth.

My definition of 'depth': An object that portrays the illusion of continuing forever whilst decreasing in size.