: What kind of perspective is used in this image?? I'm trying to figure out the perspective of this image!! I'm sure it's not a 3-point perspective and I lean toward 1-point perspective. I

@Holmes874

Your question unfortunately is based on a misconception. 1,2 and 3 point perspectives are drawing construction tools. An artist or engineer uses them as shortcuts, when the object has parallel lines like a rectangular box.

Using those shortcuts isn't a must. A drawing with a solid perspective can be constructed also point by point from rectangular projections, when the observing point and the image plane are decided. But 1,2, and 3 point perspectives can speed up the drawing substantially.

Your photo is not constructed with a pen and ruler. It's taken using a camera. Camera's placement, direction and focal length (+possible lens errors) define, how the object is mapped onto the 2-dimensional image sensor or film.

You can of course ask: Believe me, this is painted by an artist. It's so good that it only seems to be a photo. Has he used 1,2, or 3 point perspective?

The answer: Impossible to say, the image is far too complex and all possibly used construction lines are wiped off perfectly.

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@Gail6891361

Its a photograph! And as such they are always sort of distorted 3 point perspectives. As in reality there re more than 3 vanishing points as each parallel line and their 90 degree counterparts produce a separate vanishing point set. After all 3 point perspective is a gross simplification of things.

So you see, for example you get that the lines form the bridges converge to center becasue they are not in fact parallel but really converge to the middle. These are not perspective vanishing points.



Some additional thoughts

For 3 point, 2 point or 1 point perspective monikers to make any sense. Then the image needs to have a very strong focal point that is clearly one or the other. This way the discussion of what is auxiliary is not just a question of semantics.

The picture you have does not have any strong parallel line focus, for example the platform is not entirely level and the angles on the platform are a bit haphazard. So determining which edges form a perspective vanishing point is not entirely trivial. Therefore the question of whether or not the image is 1 or 2 point becomes a but moot as you can not define what is primary and what is auxiliary.

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