Lesson Info
20. Practicing Angle of View
Summary (Generated from Transcript)
The topic of this lesson is the fundamentals of photography, specifically practicing the angle of view. The instructor explains how to remember what different lenses do by using hand exercises, and provides examples of different focal lengths and the corresponding angle of view. The lesson concludes with a learning project that involves shooting with different lenses to understand how they work with the camera.
Q&A:
How can I remember what different lenses do?
The instructor suggests using hand exercises to remember the angle of view for different lenses.
How can I determine the focal length of a lens?
The instructor explains that you can adjust your arm stretch while using hand exercises to determine the angle of view for different lenses.
What is the angle of view for a 50mm lens?
The angle of view for a 50mm lens is demonstrated by extending your arms and bringing them back until your thumbs are about 10cm (4 inches) across.
How can I determine the angle of view for wider lenses?
For wider lenses, such as a 24mm or 16mm lens, the instructor demonstrates using hand exercises with different positions of the thumbs.
How can I determine the angle of view for telephoto lenses?
The instructor demonstrates using hand exercises with fully extended arms to determine the angle of view for telephoto lenses, such as a 200mm or 400mm lens.
What is the normal lens for different types of cameras?
The normal lens for full-frame cameras is 50mm, for a 1.5 crop sensor it's 35mm, and for four thirds it's 25mm.
What is the learning project for this lesson?
The learning project involves shooting with different lenses to understand how they work with the camera, and a workbook with a checklist and tests is provided.
Lessons
Class Introduction
23:32 2Photographic Characteristics
06:46 3Camera Types
03:03 4Viewing System
22:09 5Lens System
24:38 6Shutter System
12:56 7Shutter Speed Basics
10:16 8Shutter Speed Effects
31:57Camera & Lens Stabilization
11:06 10Quiz: Shutter Speeds
07:55 11Camera Settings Overview
16:12 12Drive Mode & Buffer
04:24 13Camera Settings - Details
10:21 14Sensor Size: Basics
18:26 15Sensor Sizes: Compared
24:52 16The Sensor - Pixels
22:49 17Sensor Size - ISO
26:59 18Focal Length
11:36 19Angle of View
31:29 20Practicing Angle of View
04:59 21Quiz: Focal Length
08:15 22Fisheye Lens
12:32 23Tilt & Shift Lens
20:37 24Subject Zone
13:16 25Lens Speed
09:03 26Aperture
08:25 27Depth of Field (DOF)
21:46 28Quiz: Apertures
08:22 29Lens Quality
07:06 30Light Meter Basics
09:04 31Histogram
11:48 32Quiz: Histogram
09:07 33Dynamic Range
07:25 34Exposure Modes
35:15 35Sunny 16 Rule
04:31 36Exposure Bracketing
08:08 37Exposure Values
20:01 38Quiz: Exposure
20:44 39Focusing Basics
13:08 40Auto Focus (AF)
24:39 41Focus Points
17:18 42Focus Tracking
19:26 43Focusing Q&A
06:40 44Manual Focus
07:14 45Digital Focus Assistance
07:35 46Shutter Speeds & Depth of Field (DOF)
05:18 47Quiz: Depth of Field
15:54 48DOF Preview & Focusing Screens
04:55 49Lens Sharpness
11:08 50Camera Movement
11:29 51Advanced Techniques
15:15 52Quiz: Hyperfocal Distance
07:14 53Auto Focus Calibration
05:15 54Focus Stacking
07:58 55Quiz: Focus Problems
18:54 56Camera Accessories
32:41 57Lens Accessories
29:24 58Lens Adaptors & Cleaning
13:14 59Macro
13:02 60Flash & Lighting
04:47 61Tripods
14:13 62Cases
06:07 63Being a Photographer
11:29 64Natural Light: Direct Sunlight
28:37 65Natural Light: Indirect Sunlight
15:57 66Natural Light: Mixed
04:20 67Twilight: Sunrise & Sunset Light
22:21 68Cloud & Color Pop: Sunrise & Sunset Light
06:40 69Silhouette & Starburst: Sunrise & Sunset Light
07:28 70Golden Hour: Sunrise & Sunset Light
07:52 71Quiz: Lighting
05:42 72Light Management
10:46 73Flash Fundamentals
12:06 74Speedlights
04:12 75Built-In & Add-On Flash
10:47 76Off-Camera Flash
25:48 77Off-Camera Flash For Portraits
15:36 78Advanced Flash Techniques
08:22 79Editing Assessments & Goals
08:57 80Editing Set-Up
06:59 81Importing Images
03:59 82Organizing Your Images
32:41 83Culling Images
13:57 84Categories of Development
30:59 85Adjusting Exposure
08:03 86Remove Distractions
04:02 87Cropping Your Images
09:53 88Composition Basics
26:36 89Point of View
28:56 90Angle of View
14:35 91Subject Placement
23:22 92Framing Your Shot
07:27 93Foreground & Background & Scale
03:51 94Rule of Odds
05:00 95Bad Composition
07:31 96Multi-Shot Techniques
19:08 97Pixel Shift, Time Lapse, Selective Cloning & Noise Reduction
12:24 98Human Vision vs The Camera
23:32 99Visual Perception
10:43 100Quiz: Visual Balance
14:05 101Visual Drama
16:45 102Elements of Design
09:24 103Texture & Negative Space
03:57 104Black & White & Color
10:33 105The Photographic Process
09:08 106Working the Shot
25:29 107What Makes a Great Photograph?
07:01Lesson Info
Practicing Angle of View
Come up with a very simple way of remembering what different lenses do. And so you might want to put your notes down in here because we're going to be doing some hand exercises, so you need your hands free for this, all right. Now, if you want to know what a 50mm lens looks like, what you need to do, and follow along with me, is put your hands out like this, reach them all the way out, and then bring them back so it's kinda comfortable here. Your thumbs should be about 10cm, or about 4 inches across, and you can close one eye, and what you see as you kind of an back and forth with your hands, that's about a 50mm lens. You can check this at home, and you may need to adjust your arm stretch just a little bit. But that's a 50mm lens. Now, let's do the 35mm lens. It's basically the same thing, but just move the thumbs a little bit further apart. And so this is your moderately wide-angle lens. This is a good environmental portrait lens, all right. So I've had to get a little goofy on some o...
f these. All right, so the 24mm lens, put your hands on your elbows, all right, now stick your thumbs up like this. Get your thumbs out to the edges of your elbow. Now, what you see through one eye. Yeah, do this out in public, see what people think about you there. (laughs) That's a 24mm lens. The 16mm is a little bit easier, just close one eye. And that's kinda just about everything you see with one eye, and that's gonna be your 16mm lens. Now, a little bit easier to do here. So, if you want to shoot a portrait of somebody, the thumb to pinky, arm extended. And so if I wanted to shoot a picture of Kenna here, I'd need to move up here about to get that head to belly button type portrait shot. All right, next is the 200. This is my favorite one. Here, this is the here birdy, birdy, birdy. Like you want a bird to land on your finger. Arm completely outstretched, it's the length of your finger is gonna be the width of about a 200mm lens. And so it's like, "Do I need a 200mm lens?" All right, what about a bigger lens? A 400mm lens is an arms length okay. And so I can get Kenna's head in here, fully extended. And so if I want a head shot of Kenna, just like that, I'm gonna need about a 400mm lens from here. Now, not on here, if you can completely obscure it with your thumb, it's too far away. Okay, so if there's a bird on a tree over there or something, and you're like, "I'm gonna get a photograph, and what lens? Well, let's see. Um, no, no, no, oh, too far away." if you go outside at night and you put your thumb up, you'll be able to completely obscure the moon. The moon is smaller than your thumb. And so you would need something much bigger than a if you want to photograph the moon. So I realize that there are some people out there that are still saying, "Well, wait a minute. What lens is normal for my sensor?" Sometimes people who are new kinda get confused, and so the best thing to do is to think about what is the normal lens for you? Forget about the world and everyone else, and whatever the standard is. Just what is the normal lens for you? If you shoot full-frame, it's a 50. If you shoot the 1.5 crop, it's a 35. The four thirds, it's a 25. And then you think, "Okay, that's my home base." Everything in one direction as those numbers get smaller, that's your wider angle lenses. And if you were going to cut that number in half, that's gonna be a pretty significantly wider lens. And then when you go the other direction, you can double that normal lens, and that's a short telephoto. You quadruple it, and that's a pretty good telephoto. And you can multiply it by eight, and that's a really big telephoto. And do just think what's normal for you, what's a little bit in one direction, and what's a little bit in the other direction. And then if you want to pay attention to what other people are doing, then you're gonna have to do some math. But that's what's normal for you. So your learning project for this is your focal length comparison. And so what you need to do is you need to find a penguin, or a cat, or a water bottle, or anything that you work with for a while to shoot with different lenses. Photograph it up close with a wide angle lens. Photograph it from far away with a telephoto lens, and just really get to learn how your lenses work with the cameras that you have. And so there's the project four, and this is in the learning projects workbook that comes with the class. And there's going to be a whole little checklist in here, do this, do this. And then you can practice about what aperture, you can write down what aperture you shot at. And then there's ... we have a couple of tests in here. We have a number of tests that you can run in there. And just learn about how your lenses work.
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