Hi, this is Joe McNally for AdoramaTV,
and in this segment I'm going to talk to you about the extreme differences
in showing graphics with wide lenses and telephoto lenses.
AdoramaTV presents, Photo On The Go with Joe McNally.
So there's a big difference
between dragging out a long lens and dragging out a wide lens
when you're working graphically, and oftentimes that's what you are doing out
there in the field you're trying to sort
out the graphics of a location as they present themselves.
Behind me is a giant array of parmesan cheese wheels,
in Parma Italy and I shot this obviously with a wide angle lens,
and there's been something that has come along very recently that I'm very happy about.
Nikon just came out with a 20mm
F1.8. Which is fast glass,
and historically, the 20 for me, as a fixed wide angle was always my favourite.
I love the twenty-millimeter perspective, nothing against zooms or anything like
that, but I'm very happy this lens has come along.
It's sharp, it's fast, and it's affordable. Gets me back to
sort of my photographic roots, when I would go out with two lenses,
if I only had those two lenses it would be a 20 and a 180.
So this was shot the 20mm perspective and you can see how it
throws the world away
and emphasizes the repeating nature of the wheels,
and just how many of them there are.
Again, behind me this deserted hallway
at Ellis Island you know, when I'm using a 20, you establish in a hallway like this,
you establish this kind of vertigo effect.
You know, there is no stacking up
that comes with the compression of a long lens it throws the world away from you,
widens it out quite literally and gets your eye to sort of travel down this space
to, well, you can't really see where it ends,
you know, and that's a beauty of working like this. There's a kind of a mystery to it
you kind of suck the eyeballs of your viewer into your photograph,
and keep them engaged, ok, by following all this lush detail
as it recedes away from you with the wide angle lens usage.
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So what changes when you shift from
a wide lens to a telephoto lens? Well certainly
the amount of stuff you have to carry with you. This is a 200-400.
I shot the picture over my shoulder with this lens from a Cessna ok,
this is a chunk of glass.
It's hard to manage okay, you have to really, really concentrate.
Quick tip, if you are shooting, especially from a moving plane
also from a helicopter depending on the wind conditions, but certainly from
something like a Cessna which cannot maintain
a stationary position in the air, you might want to think about the lens hood.
Whenever I go up in the air, I take this lens hood or
if I feel it's really going to be a detriment to be holding the lens steady,
I take it off, because what can happen up there is that this can literally fill with air,
and it becomes a giant scoop out there in the slipstream
and it can actually knock the lens around. So I either tape it really
seriously, or I take it off.
And you can go even bigger,
ok I just showed you a 200-400 ok.
This picture over my shoulder was shot with a 600mm
f4. This is a commitment ok, lots of wildlife photographers use 600s as a
routine thing also say,
a footballer, action sports folks. The 600
as opposed to that hallway I showed you with Ellis Island where it was
creating some vertigo here and it faded away.
The lines get very blocky, everything stacks up on itself
and those runners look like ants they're kind of, almost crawling over one another
when there's actually probably 10-15 feet between those runners.
But with the stacked up compress perspective
of a long piece of glass, it doesn't look like that at all.
So if you ever want to go out, say on 5th Avenue or someplace like that, or
at a race and make, you know, a hundred runners coming at you look like
a thousand runners via the compress perspective
that you are trying to establish Ling glass
is a good way to go, longer the better.
This is Joe McNally for AdoramaTV, talking to you in this segment about the
differences between wide lenses and long lenses,
and how they render your graphics differently.
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