Hey this is Daniel Norton I'm here in my
studio in New York City with Polina. and
today I want to talk a little bit about
kind of lens choice for your background,
partially because if you watch enough of
my videos you know I'm kind of a widish-
lens / normal lens guy,
but there's times when you want to use
longer lenses for different reasons,
and one reason is the
compression that it causes on your
background, so if you're gonna shoot
let's say like a kind of a fashion shot,
which we're gonna do today, and you're
using the smaller background paper the
the 53-inch background paper, versus the
9 foot, which often times we're doing
these days because you can use lots of
different colors, and it's kind of fun to
mix it up.
It works in smaller spaces, you
have to really think about your lens
choice, so I'm going to go through and
show you kind of normalise... normal /
wide lens, and then kind of a longer lens,
and I'll show you whatever difference
that makes.
So you jump on your spot please.
So I've got the Fuji GFX 50, or
here and I have 45mm lens on it,
which is just kind of like the wide normal,
and if I'm gonna frame up the shot
because they're basically like shorts
combo outfit, you know from just below
the, the end of the outfit to the top of
her head and if I do that with this
camera like this... just looking through
the back, yeah, and we don't lose her
finger... so I'll do that.
We'll frame this guy up,
and I'm gonna take a peek, so I'm
gonna turn my flashes on.
I've got just for lighting guys, I've got a
Profoto B1X here in a three-foot octane
which is kind of good for this kind...
of off to the side,
but centered to give even light on her.
And then I've just got another B1X
in the back, just blastyed in the
background, I am using a flag to keep the
light from hitting her in the arm, I
want to create that kind of like dark
shape around her.
So let's take a shot so
it looks like that...
Good. good, we're shooting at about 5..
6.5, f8 ish...
and we can see right where smidge
dark so I'm gonna actually give myself a
little more light, I'm going to go to f/5.6.
There we go so now we can see clearly..
that you know, we've got her in the shot,
but you can see all of this stuff in the
background.
Now granted, if you're gonna
cut it out I guess you could just cut
her out still, but you're really working
with limited space here.
So just by changing the lens... right,
by now of course
want to change the lens.
If I stay in this position, I'll only have her
head in the shots.
I'm going to back up...
so it's really the backing up that's making
loads of difference...
when you back up you...
compress your space... right... so we're
backing up,
We're going to compress the
space on her...
and then I'm gonna switch
lenses here.
I'm gonna switch to the 110...
which is kind of like the... it's... it's not
really super long lens.
I'm medium format...
it's kind of like longer than normal...
but shorter than you know like full on
telephoto... you know.
I think it's around 285 ish equivalent
roughly... don't quote me on that...
even though I just said it on video...
it's roughly there..
alright so I'm gonna fire this guy up,
and we're gonna get a similar framing like
this... so again I'm kind of just framing it
up on just like that... and we can see that
you know....
we're gonna move over a little bit... but
we can see that we have so much more
background behind her...
look if you compare this to this,
you can see how much more space she
has on either side of her...
you know, and that's that.
you know
the difference on her body and stuff is
not huge at this point...
because it's not a super long lens ...
whereas a super short lens,
but obviously that makes a
difference to the compression... but
let's shoot if you like this...
because this is how I would do it...
yeah we'll get some shots...
so let's go...
and tripod here guys...
how you keep it kind of balanced
and then we are gonna work here like this,
just like that..
nice and pretty right?
and nobody would know that we didn't
have a little a little bit..
and nobody would
know that we didn't have a huge studio
full of nine-foot backdrops.
It's better yeah...
there we go...
yeah, good, good...
like that...
just like that... easy as that guys...
we see all the detail,
you know...
and remember though of course... the
background is still only four and a half
feet wide... so if she was to stick her
arms out...
she'll still come off of it...
but with this situation... we have just more
room to move...
so if you're gonna do any
arms or whatever...
we can do like kind of yeah...
like a little bit turns to the side...
maybe a little more like this...
and just the shoulders this way...
Yeah there we go...
If you can still do that guys...
you just got to watch the edges.
Oh we can do that...
nice and simple... it just like that...
nice and clean...
compresses the background
really easy... let's see...
checking my focus...
we've got big 50 megapixel files...
so my computer's like...
what are you doing to me...
but um yeah so....
compression right?
You use it for a lot of these...
I did a video before if you
guys wanna check...
back at that one where
we use the same lens and I just backed
up and then we crop to show you the how
it changes the face...
it's not really the lens...
but if you actually want to get the
same framing...
and not like waste pixels
you do need to use longer lenses to
achieve that.
So narrow background it
could be that you are using a small roll
of paper like this or maybe you just want
to put the person in front of a doorway or whatever..
you know anything you want to put them
in front of will become more narrow when
you use a longer lens, and you back up so
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