"How Wide...?"
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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
- DoTheMacarena0
what's the camera's distance from the model?
- pauli0
Another from the same set
- ********0
looks like a 50mm or longer
- hmmm, I'm not expert but Ima have to disagree with you buddy..OSFA
- pauli0
Not sure what the distance is?
- ********0
regardless of what these were shot it I would recommend not using a wide angle lens to shoot people.
- ********0
"No way could this be a fifty!"
based on what? it really could be anything.
- bigtrickagain0
look! here's an online calculator for this:
http://www.tawbaware.com/maxlyon…
- zarkonite0
there's no distortion of either the perspective or the pov. This has to be a long lens, cannot be a wide.
- ethanfink0
most fashion portrait is 50mm-100ish
- xcreonx0
^ 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.
- danthon0
50mm on a full frame slr would only have to be around ten feet from subject to get this wide. Cropped sensor around 15feet
- epic_rim0
I'm guessing between 50 to 85mm
- johngrif0
I wouldn't use a wide angle lens to shoot people. Just my two cents.
- mrghost0
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 ccdmrghost
- There is a point where a lens becomes too long, flattening the face too much.********
- pauli0
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
