- What is going on guys?
My name is Chris Hau, and today we are talking about
how to turn any single lens, that is right, any single lens,
into a wide angle lens.
Even if you have a wide angle lens,
we can turn that into a wider angle lens.
This technique is free, it's easy to do,
and it could possibly save you a few bucks,
so let's jump into it.
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Alright, so let's say you don't own a wide angle lens,
or you forgot your wide angle lens at home,
or you just want to save a few bucks.
Well, here are the things that you're gonna need
to be able to turn any lens into a wide angle lens.
Obviously, item number one is a camera and a lens.
And number two is Lightroom.
That's it, those are the only two items you need
to actually complete this.
Alright, step one, grab your camera,
get the exposure that you want of your subject,
and then lock the focus.
Now step two, you're gonna shoot
a vertical or square panorama.
Now in most panorama cases,
we're very used to going left to right or right to left.
That's the traditional panorama,
but you can actually shoot other panoramas,
and this is actually a technique
I just recently learned on my trip to Iceland.
You can shoot vertical panoramas,
so if you have a tighter lens,
you can actually shoot the entire coverage of the area
by just shooting all the way up or all the way down.
If you want a wider photo, you shoot a square panorama.
So, for example, you shoot about nine photos.
So you guy, photo one, photo two, photo three, photo four,
photo five, photo six, photo seven, photo eight, photo nine.
I can't even say that.
Photo one, photo two, photo three, photo four, photo,
but basically you can shoot as many photos as you want
in a square pattern or vertical pattern.
Make sure that when you're shooting your photos
that there's overlap in between every photo
so that the program Lightroom
can actually stitch all these images together very nicely.
Here's some B roll on how to shoot
a vertical or square panorama.
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Alright, great, so now you guys have your photos.
Let's bring those into Lightroom.
Now for this example, I'm gonna be using
a vertical panorama that I shot when I was last in Iceland.
Now import the images that you want into Lightroom
and then select the images that you're gonna be using
for your square or vertical panorama.
Now right click on those photos
and go to photo merge and then click panorama.
Let the computer process it's way through it.
Now you're gonna get a projection
of what you're panorama looks like,
and in most cases it actually might look kinda wack,
but that's totally normal and that's okay.
Now just click through the different options.
We have spherical, cylindrical, or perspective.
Now click the option that looks best on your photo.
In this case, it's the perspective option.
That's the one that looks best on this vertical panorama,
so I clicked that, I press auto-cropped,
and boom, there we go, vertical panorama.
Now edit your photo and post it to Instagram
and then watch the comments come in where everyone's like,
"Whoa, did you get a wide angle lens?
"Like, Geraldine, are you blowin' up these days
"and getting a ton of jobs?"
And you're gonna be like, "Yeah, I am."
But you're not really, because you just used this technique
that makes it look like you have a lot of lenses,
but you don't actually have that many lenses.
You could have like one lens
but then shoot all the different types of lenses,
just with this technique.
Also, to Geraldine out there, great job.
Now here are some of the benefits to using this technique.
Number one is obvious.
You don't need as many lenses.
Number two, carry less
if you're going out on photo missions.
Now in this case,
you don't wanna always carry a ton of lenses,
especially in my case.
I have kind of a sore back sometimes.
It's nice to just pare down
to the lenses that I actually need
and just use this technique if I need a wide angle shot.
Number three, your file sizes are much larger,
so if you have a twelve megapixel camera,
when you stitch a bunch of photos together,
it could go to like 20, to 40, to 60 megapixel image,
which means it's great for printing.
Here are some of the downsides though.
It's very time-consuming.
You have to take more photos,
it requires more processing time
on your computer and post-production work.
Your computer's gonna have to work harder
to just get your image in resolution.
So in terms of like a work flow perspective,
it's not that fast.
Just wanna say a big shout out
to my friend Gunnar from Iceland,
also known as Icelandic Explorer.
When I was last in Iceland, he showed me this technique,
and he actually uses it for his DSLR and drones,
so you can apply it to whatever camera
that you're shooting with.
Anyways, please go check out his work and support him.
I'll link him below.
Alright guys, so hopefully, you learned
a little something this video.
If you did, please give it
a old, big old, (snaps fingers)
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Give it a thumbs up.
It actually makes a difference.
Subscribe, would love for you to join along,
and we'll catch you guys in the next video.
Peace out, everybody.
Here's the hands over lens transition to the end screen.
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