I was taking photos of some vintage items yesterday for a flash sale I have coming up in June and I noticed that things look completely different depending on how close-up you get.
If you zoom in too close, things will get blurry. If you zoom out too far, you lose all of the details.
But there’s a optimum distance for a picture that balances the best of these two extremes and pulls everything into focus.
And how do you find this perfect shot?
You zoom in and zoom out. Zoom in and zoom out.
The perfect shot is always easy to recognize when you see it through your camera lens.
Well, it’s important to go through this zooming in and zooming out process in life, too.
Often when we’re facing a problem or feeling stuck, it’s easy to focus on what’s sitting right in front of our noses. From this viewpoint, though, we may think that there’s no solution or that we’re in an impossible situation.
That’s when it’s time to do some zooming.
First, zoom in.
Really get up close and personal with your issue. Examine every minute detail. Ask the silliest, dumbest questions you can. Put your problem or concern under a microscope and drill down until you understand it on a cellular level.
Then, zoom out. Way out.
See how the problem relates to the whole. Where does it fit in the bigger picture?
Consider its impact on your family and friends. Its affect on your business and your customers and your industry. Its relationship to your community, your country and the planet.
Try to see your issue from a bigger proper perspective. Maybe your problem really isn’t the end of the world as you know it after all.
In fact, maybe from this zoomed out perspective the problem you’ve been wrangling with doesn’t seem so huge. Maybe now it’s clear that your obstacle is really the beginning of something new and better. Or maybe it’s not worth worrying about anymore at all. Or maybe you realize that you’ve actually been worrying about the wrong problem this whole time and now that the actual problem is clear as day you can zoom in and out on that.
Zooming in and zooming out.
It’s not just for photographers!
As for today’s VPOD, whether you zoom in close to see the pearl trim and the Indian feather print or you stand back and admire it from afar, this vintage 1980s Zandra Rhodes silk chiffon dress is simply stunning.
It’s a quite a lovely find from the perspective of a Vintage Crusader!
Available at Vintage Textile.
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