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    Making Your Lenses: Work For You

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    This document discusses how different lens focal lengths affect the angle of view and perspective in photographs. A normal lens has a similar angle of view to the human eye, while a wide-angle lens has a wider view and a telephoto lens has a narrower view. The document instructs the reader to take photos with different lenses and focal lengths to understand these concepts in practice and determine shutter speeds needed to avoid blur from camera shake with telephoto lenses.

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    This document discusses how different lens focal lengths affect the angle of view and perspective in photographs. A normal lens has a similar angle of view to the human eye, while a wide-angle lens has a wider view and a telephoto lens has a narrower view. The document instructs the reader to take photos with different lenses and focal lengths to understand these concepts in practice and determine shutter speeds needed to avoid blur from camera shake with telephoto lenses.

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    This document discusses how different lens focal lengths affect the angle of view and perspective in photographs. A normal lens has a similar angle of view to the human eye, while a wide-angle lens has a wider view and a telephoto lens has a narrower view. The document instructs the reader to take photos with different lenses and focal lengths to understand these concepts in practice and determine shutter speeds needed to avoid blur from camera shake with telephoto lenses.

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    Making Your Lenses: Work For You

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    This document discusses how different lens focal lengths affect the angle of view and perspective in photographs. A normal lens has a similar angle of view to the human eye, while a wide-angle lens has a wider view and a telephoto lens has a narrower view. The document instructs the reader to take photos with different lenses and focal lengths to understand these concepts in practice and determine shutter speeds needed to avoid blur from camera shake with telephoto lenses.

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    MAKING YOUR LENSES
    WORK FOR YOU
    PHOTZY.COM
    Skill Points: The lens is key equipment to your imaging success. There is a
    • Learning about lens lot of technique surrounding the lens that you should be aware of. In this Action
    focal lengths Card, we are going to concentrate on angle of view and perspective.
    • Discovering how lens
    perspective works KEY LESSON: A normal lens has an angle of view similar to your
    • Developing proper handling
    eyesight. A wide-angle lens has a wider angle of view. A telephoto lens
    skills for lenses has a narrower angle of view than your eyesight. A zoom lens has a
    variable angle of view. Don’t confuse telephoto and zoom. A zoom lens
    is one that has the ability to change the focal length internally. However,
    it may not zoom into the telephoto range of focal length.

    The normal view The wider picture The narrow view


    Left: The 50mm lens is the Left: Any lens focal length lower than Left: Any lens focal length higher than
    normal focal length for the normal lens, takes in a wider angle the normal lens takes in a narrower
    35mm film or a full sized of view than the human eye. Some angle of view than the human eye.
    camera sensor. It neither benefits include capturing a wider You can capture a compressed view
    expands nor contracts the view when camera to subject distance creating the visual effect of closeness.
    perspective based upon the is limited, and also creating the visual With telephoto lenses you need a faster
    field of view. As the camera effect of expansiveness. shutter speed to eliminate camera
    sensor size decreases, Right: The wide-angle lens can also shake due to magnification.
    so does the normal focal create distortion. The wider the angle Right: The telephoto lens is perfect
    length. The normal lens, of view… the greater distortion. Placing for bringing distant objects closer. The
    for some of the different the camera close to an object will closer the lens is to the subject, the
    sensor sizes, include: also dramatically increase wide-angle greater the visual effect of compression
    APS-C - 32mm and 4/3s - distortion. This can be used creatively. will be.
    25mm and 2/3s – 33mm.

    ACTION ASSIGNMENT! HOW DID YOU DO?


    Take pictures with all of your different lenses and zoom focal lengths Do you now understand how
    • Pick a subject, set a medium (5 meters) camera to subject distance, and shutter speed is especially
    photograph the subject with all of your different focal lengths. important - when using longer
    • Use your widest-angle lens and try to create lens distortion. focal length lenses? At what
    • Use your longest focal length lens and practice composing with shutter speed, did your longer
    compression. focal length shots become
    • Using your longest focal length lens and photograph a subject starting blurry from camera shake? See
    with a shutter speed of 1/500th, and then increase the shutter speed Reciprocal Rule Action Card.
    “one stop per shot” in the following manner: 1/250th, 1/125th, 1/60th,
    1/30th, 1/15th, and 1/8th.
    • Print your shots and examine them carefully for sharpness.

    READY! SET! GO! ACTION CARDS


    COMPOSITION: LENS FOCAL LENGTH

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