Thanks for the video! Great professor! Instead of trying to show off yourself (as many youtubers), you’re just teaching us, beginners, in an easy way! Thanks
Thanks for the video. I think every photographer, who shoot full-frame cameras, needs a normal lens, a wide-angle lens, and a telephoto lens. For prime lenses, I like to use a 50mm normal lens, a 28mm wide-angle lens, and a 135mm telephoto lens. For zoom lenses, I like to use a 24-70mm normal lens, a 14-24mm wide zoom lens, and a 70-200mm telephoto zoom lens.
Compression is the compression of the background and foreground, for example a tree behind a model will seem closer to model, but with a wide angle, lower, focal length lens the foreground and background are decompressed, spread out, so the model and tree will appear further apart. Close head shots look natural and flattering when facial features are compressed, but look more distorted with a wide angle lens, for example you can make a hand look gigantic on the end of a long arm and small body in the background, because everything is streached out.
The lens doesn't make the compression! Never! You'll always have to change the perspective ("stand point") for a different compression. You have to go further away to get more compression. Then the Telephoto lens gets you a smaller field of view. But the lens doesn't make the compression. It's the perspective.☝🏼🙂
Great video. Thank you very much. I just bought a Sony A7C and am looking to buy lenses for it. I just read about the Sony 50mm f/1.8 which you recommended but it is not weather sealed. I need weather sealed equipment since I mostly shoot when I am hiking and camping. Can you suggest a weather sealed 50mm prime lens for a Sony A7C ? Also, do you still recommend the Sony 10-18mm f/4 for a wide angle lens ? ( I have been reading about lenses and everyone has a different opinion on what I should buy. I am now in analysis paralysis and need a little advice on what I need. I do really like your simple idea that every new photographer needs a wide angle, zoom and prime lens. BTW - I loved your photos of the milky way )
If your just starting I think buy a cheap 24 or 50mm prime lens, learn how to use it well. Then go from there into better more expensive zoom lenses. Unless you got a ton of money to burn
