From the course: Learning Natural Light Portrait Photography
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Choosing the right lens
From the course: Learning Natural Light Portrait Photography
Choosing the right lens
- The gear which most directly affects the way your portraits look is the lens. And so, here I want to talk a little bit about the differences of our lenses, the personality of our lenses, so that we can figure out which lens we might want to use in order to create a certain type of photograph. Now, to keep things simple, I want to distill lenses into a few different categories. So, this is a little bit of an over-simplification but we have lenses which are more wide angle. Those allow us us to capture a little bit more of the scene. We have ones which are a little bit more of a normal focal length, like a 50 millimeter, that's, in a sense, how the eye sees the world. Then we have our telephoto focal length lenses, say like 70 to 200. And those allows us to get closer to the scene than is really possible with our own eyes. Now, when it comes to the characteristics of these lenses, the first thing that's really important to think about is that each of these lenses have a different…
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