Or, you can simply have them further away as an element of an environmental photo, rather than the close-up focus of it. Having the camera lower down can help to make legs appear longer. Putting the camera above your subject can help to reduce the size of their body relative to their face, giving it more importance. For more of a head & shoulders formal portrait, you’re so close to your subject that a wide angle lens could be looking down on their chest while simultaneously peering up their nose.īut, perspective distortion can also become your friend, depending on how you use it. It’s entirely possible to frame up a standard portrait type composition while still having your subject close enough that they can still reach out and easily touch the lens.Įverything is really about perspective distortion. Because you need to get so close to your subjects if you want them to appear large in the frame, perspective distortion can be your enemy here. Because the lens has such a wide angle of view, as your subject moves further from the lens, it gets much smaller far more quickly. Everything looks further away/smaller than it really is The distortion here is one of perspective. But that does not mean they’re distortion free. Wide angle lenses still (try to) keep straight lines straight. A lot of people confuse the two, thinking that any lens with a wide-angle of view is a fisheye, but it’s not. To be clear, we’re talking rectilinear wide angle lenses here, not fisheye lenses, which are a different sort of thing altogether.
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