"How Wide...?" 2727 Responses

Last post: 1 year, 11 months ago | Thread started: Mar 12, 10, 1:33 p.m.

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• pauli

  How wide of a lens do you need to take
  a close-up full-body photograph like this?
  My guess is 10-22mm

  

  Mar 12, 10, 1:33 p.m. – Permalink

• DoTheMacarena

  what's the camera's distance from the model?

  • <– OSFA1/2

    YUP.– linearch2/2

  

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  Dog-earMar 12, 10, 1:34 p.m. – Permalink

• pauli

  Another from the same set
  

  

  

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  Dog-earMar 12, 10, 1:34 p.m. – Permalink

• sequoia

  looks like a 50mm or longer

  • hmmm, I'm not expert but Ima have to disagree with you buddy..– OSFA

  

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  Dog-earMar 12, 10, 1:36 p.m. – Permalink

• pauli

  Not sure what the distance is?

  

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  Dog-earMar 12, 10, 1:36 p.m. – Permalink

• pauli

  No way could this be a fifty!
  

  

  • She's cute!– ideaist1/3

    look at all that area around his body. Again, im not too sure but looks very wide.– pauli2/3

    Androgyny's back in eh?– ideaist3/3

  

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  Dog-earMar 12, 10, 1:38 p.m. – Permalink

• sequoia

  regardless of what these were shot it I would recommend not using a wide angle lens to shoot people.

  • <– danthon

  

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  Dog-earMar 12, 10, 1:38 p.m. – Permalink

• sequoia

  "No way could this be a fifty!"

  based on what? it really could be anything.

  • man's got a point...– OSFA

  

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  Dog-earMar 12, 10, 1:39 p.m. – Permalink

• discoduro

  

  • lol– utopian

  

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  Dog-earMar 12, 10, 1:40 p.m. – Permalink

• bigtrickagain

  look! here's an online calculator for this:
  http://www.tawbaware.com/maxlyon…

  • << look at this!– bigtrickagain

  

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  Dog-earMar 12, 10, 1:41 p.m. – Permalink

• SteveJobs

  10 is very wide - near fisheye, so i'd def say higher

  • also, no barrel distortion or anything telling of a wider lens. could be wrong tho– SteveJobs1/2

    oh, i missed this comment here– acescence2/2

  

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  Dog-earMar 12, 10, 1:45 p.m. – Permalink

• acescence

  really wide lens = lots of barrel distortion and goofy looking proportions

  • Platon does this for effect... most people don't like it.... subjects often hate it– vaxorcist

  

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  Dog-earMar 12, 10, 1:52 p.m. – Permalink

• zarkonite

  there's no distortion of either the perspective or the pov. This has to be a long lens, cannot be a wide.

  

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  Dog-earMar 12, 10, 1:56 p.m. – Permalink

• ethanfink

  most fashion portrait is 50mm-100ish

  

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  Dog-earMar 12, 10, 1:56 p.m. – Permalink

• xcreonx

  ^ agreed, If it's 35mm film/DSLR then it's prob in the 50 - 100mm range with the camera turned vertical. You would have to back away from the model to get a full body shot in the frame, but this is normal for any studio work. There's usually a good separation between the background - model - photographer. Gives better DOF.

  

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  Dog-earMar 12, 10, 2:02 p.m. – Permalink

• danthon

  50mm on a full frame slr would only have to be around ten feet from subject to get this wide. Cropped sensor around 15feet

  

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  Dog-earMar 12, 10, 2:03 p.m. – Permalink

• ethanfink

  This article is good...
  

  

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foc…

  

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  Dog-earMar 12, 10, 2:08 p.m. – Permalink

• epic_rim

  I'm guessing between 50 to 85mm

  • <<<– duckofrubber1/2

    yup. 70mm– pizzafire2/2

  

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  Dog-earMar 12, 10, 2:13 p.m. – Permalink

• johngrif

  I wouldn't use a wide angle lens to shoot people. Just my two cents.

  • YUP– linearch

  

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  Dog-earMar 12, 10, 3:29 p.m. – Permalink

• mrghost

  the question should not be about lens.. always use a long lens (as it flattens the face and creates a more beautiful person) but about the size of the room in which you would need to shoot with said lens to obtain the space that is portrayed.

  • assuming you have full frame ccd– mrghost1/2

    There is a point where a lens becomes too long, flattening the face too much.– nb2/2

  

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  Dog-earMar 12, 10, 3:51 p.m. – Permalink

• pauli

  yes, mrhogst, you are right about that.
  I notices that when I use my long L series canon (Im still a noob, though) the further way I get from my subject ( and in return increase my focal legnth) the greater my sharpness and DOF!

  • (also you should look into getting a fixed lens, no more zoooomin)– mrghost

  

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  Dog-earMar 12, 10, 5:20 p.m. – Permalink