How to Choose the Best Focal Length in Landscape Photography
Getting started in landscape photography and not sure what focal length lens to use? Here's a 26-minute video by photographer Nigel Danson on how to go about making that decision.
Getting started in landscape photography and not sure what focal length lens to use? Here's a 26-minute video by photographer Nigel Danson on how to go about making that decision.
Photographer Julia Trotti made this 7-minute video that shows how your choice of focal length affects your results in portrait photography.
Just before sunset a few days ago, a gorgeous double rainbow appeared over the San Francisco Bay. I happened to have a fisheye lens attached to my camera, so I ran outside and snapped the shot above.
"Dolly zoom" is a technique that was popularized by Alfred Hitchcock in his film Vertigo, after which it was commonly referred to as "Hitchcock zoom" and the "vertigo effect". The basic idea is to photograph (or film) a subject while moving towards or away from it, and at the same time changing the focal length to keep the subject at the same size in each frame. French photographer Micaƫl Reynaud used this technique on a beach last year, snapping photos of a stone block at focal lengths ranging from 24mm when he was closest to it to 840mm when he was farthest away.
Here’s a diagram created by Reddit user …