How Lens Choice Affects Your Background
You’ve heard me talk about lens compression and how flattering that is for portraits, but lens compression actually affects more than people’s faces—it affects how your background is rendered in the shot. For example, when you use a wide-angle lens—let’s say a 24mm lens (the shot you see above left)—it pushes the scene away, so the background behind your subject looks farther away in the photo than it actually is in real life. That’s great when you want to make a scene look big and epic—you’re making a scene look bigger than it really is. Now, if you were to change lenses to a long telephoto or zoom lens ...
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