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Portrait project: Wide-angle view

Portrait project: Wide-angle view - iPhone Tutorial

From the course: Mobile Photography Weekly

Portrait project: Wide-angle view

- Hey, everybody, Sean here. Welcome back to Mobile Photography Weekly. I'm in downtown Nevada City, California, and today's project is a wide-angle portrait. Now, you might have heard that, if you have a phone with dual lenses, a normal lens and a portrait lens, that it's best to take portraits with that portrait lens 'cause it's going to be more flattering for your subject. And that is true for normal types of portraits. But sometimes you're in an environment where you just want to get in as much of the scene as possible and use a real wide view. So, we're standing in front of this giant Pelton wheel here. This was a pretty innovative development in the mining industry back in the 1800s. Really cool, got this great, industrial vibe to it. I'm going to do a portrait of Rob next to it. And instead of using my portrait lens, I'm going to shoot wide-angle. Now, of course, I have the normal lens on this iPhone, which is a wide-angle lens, but I'm going to go even wider still. I have an…

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