From the course: Photography Foundations: Lenses

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From the course: Photography Foundations: Lenses

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The title lenses might make you think that this course is going to be about technical optics stuff and lens buying. And while there will be some technical discussion, this course is not meant as a lesson in optics. Several of your camera's most critical controls sit on the lens. Your choice of lens and how you use it will determine the composition of your shot, set the sense of space and proportion in the final image, how deep or shallow the depth of field in your image will be, and overall sharpness and contrast. Furthermore, your choice of lens and your understanding of its controls will determine whether you can work as quickly as you need to get the shots that you want. This course is going to assume a fundamental understanding of exposure, so if you haven't yet worked through the Foundations of Photography: Exposure course, you might want to do that before taking on this one. I'll be using terminology here that is defined and explained in exposure as well as building on some of…

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