Naysayers are: Poe, Hawthorne, and Melville
Answer:
It makes your subject appear smaller and further away.
Explanation:
Think about when you look at an apple, when you look at it really close it appears larger, but as you move away from it, it gets smaller, and smaller, and further away. The same thing with a traffic light, you see it almost every day, and it looks small, because it's far away, but when you see it up close and near you, it is larger.