perspective distortions with telephoto zoom lens?

Question

Can you create perspective distortions with telephoto ZOOM lens?? what setting would use at what object?? how does the distortion look like?, How can you INCREASE ( not decrease) this distortion? let say with a 70-300mm telephoto lens.

How can you accomplish this using telephoto lens and without photoshop.

Answer 1

I have, on occasion, taken portraits of horses for clients.

Full on side views were no problem, since most of the horse's body was, essentially, on the same plane.

It was in taking 3/4 views that I discovered a problem. With my regular lens, I found that the horse's head loomed HUGE, while the body diminished in size, farther back. The result was very freaky looking, giant headed horsies!

The solution was to mount my telephoto lens. (The 100mm worked fine) I stepped back, away from the horse, and the distortion went away. From a far enough distance, even the huge animal's entire body was, pretty much on the same relative plane.

Think of fisheye lens in reverse.

No distortion and happy, paying clients!

Answer 2

Suppose you have a person sitting on a bench and you're 20' away from them. You photograph them with a 35mm lens, a 100mm lens and a 300mm lens. The perspective has not changed - only the angle of view, from wide (35mm) to narrow (300mm). Now if you shoot with the 35mm from 5' and the 100mm from 10' and the 300mm from 20', yes the perspective changes. The lens to subject distance is what alters perspective.

I believe you are thinking of the "compression effect" of longer telephoto or zoom lenses. Its used to really emphasize traffic congestion. It can be used to "stack" objects on top of each other. Shoot a row of telephone poles with a 300mm. Find a street scene with 2 cars parked 5 or 6 spaces apart. The telephone poles will appear almost on top of each other; the cars will look as though they are parked side by side.

Answer 3

you have some very stable suggestion approximately this selection. another attention it is advisable to comprise is the relative bulk of the lenses. i exploit a Nikkor 28-200mm for action picture, the place it covers existence like huge-attitude to existence like zoom. If I purely desire to hold one lens, that could be a stable answer to cover maximum circumstances. in spite of the shown fact that that could be a cumbersome lens, and if i'm hiking, then i will decide for a smaller zoom (35-70mm or 35-105mm) on the digital camera and carry an prolonged zoom (70-300mm) if I extremely desire to seize small organic international (birds in specific). this would extremely develop the all up weight if I carry the two lenses, yet is drastically greater user-friendly to administration while i don't. That mentioned, while i became into vacationing distant places final 3 hundred and sixty 5 days, I carried the 28-200mm and a time-honored (50mm) best lens with a FM2n physique. For digital, the 28-200mm covers the conventional to average telephoto variety, and could not supply you the huge attitude coverage which you're able to get with the 18-55mm. Its longer focal length is merely in the telephoto variety, and provides you with stable attitude for portraiture and small group pictures. that is going to by no skill be stable for small subjects the place you are able to not get close (organic international, activities).

Answer 4

It's a lot easier with a wide angle lens with a wide depth of field and a short minimum focusing distance, but the technique is about the same.

What causes perspective distortions is shooting from either an extremely low or an extremely high angle to your subject or shooting two disproportionate objects at distance from each other with a wide depth of field.

Take object A, say the Statue of Liberty. Take object B, say your best friend. You could easily take a picture of your friend that made him or her look taller than the Statue of Liberty. Basicaly, your friend needs to be closer to the camera than he or she is to the Statue.

The best advice I can give you is to play around a bit. If you're using a digital, you can review the shot after you take it.

Answer 5

You can create perspective distortions with ANY lens. The closer you are to your subject, the greater the distortion will be. Old school photographers used those large cameras with bellows, swings and tilts to correct for the effects of distortion and parallax. Today, such distortion can be created (or adjusted away) using image manipulation software, such as Photoshop.