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Lens Choice: A Beginner's Guide

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Choosing a Focal Length: A Beginner's Guide

This class was made to help you purchase and use the right lenses for your own personal photography. What decisions go into choosing the right focal length for your image? How does compression and distortion work and on what is it most apparent? What lenses are a must-have in your bag that will help you tell your own story correctly?

These are the questions that you will start to answer in this class. It will focus on doing comparisons between different focal lengths with the same subject, give tips for purchasing lenses and a starter guide for specific genres of photography. Learning about lenses and their relative focal lengths will bring a whole new perspective to your photographic style. You will begin to be able to breakdown your favourite images and think about why your favourite photographer's used that lens versus the other.  

Be creative, daring and take great photos!

For more of my photography classes ranging from beginner principles to intermediate development: 

PHOTOGRAPHY 101

Automatic to Manual Mode: The 3 Things You Need to Know

https://skl.sh/2lJnicN

Amateur to Freelance: How to Develop a Portfolio

https://skl.sh/2nTysQX

The Travelling Photographer: Choosing the Right Gear for Your Journey

https://skl.sh/2ryiQAF

LENSES 101

Lenses 101: Shooting with Primes

http://skl.sh/2lqKI6F

Lenses 101: Creativity with Vintage Lenses & DIY Filters

https://skl.sh/2sDSnEV

NEXT STEPS

Lens Filters: Pushing Your Still Images

https://skl.sh/2HTUJYZ

Advanced Lens Choice: Editing In-Camera

https://skl.sh/2EeCOuR

For more of my work, you can check out my instagram or website.

www.instagram.com/indejones

www.indeanaunderhill.com

Syllabus

  • Introduction
  • Your Project
  • The Crop Factor
  • Portrait Comparison
  • Macro
  • Special Effect Lens: Lensbaby Spark
  • Vintage Lens: Helios 442
  • Things to Keep in Mind
  • Wrap Up

Taught by

Indeana Underhill

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