Wide-Angle Photography by Marquardt, chris -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Title Copyright Dedication Acknowledgments About the Author Table of Contents Preface: Depth Follows Breadth How to Approach This Book Who is This Book Aimed At? Photospeak 1 First Steps

1.1 Differences in Depth 1.2 Angles of View and Context 1.3 Sharpness and Context 1.4 Landscapes and Composition 1.5 Barrel Distortion 1.6 Using Depth and Distortion Creatively 1.7 Distortion at the Edge of the Frame

2 What Are Wide Angles All About?

2.1 The Human Eye 2.2 Focal Lengths

2.2.1 Normal Lenses 2.2.2 Depth not Breadth 2.2.3 Crop Factors 2.2.4 Classifying Focal Lengths

2.3 Angles of View 2.4 Perceived Wide Angles

3 Creative Challenges

3.1 Distance

3.1.1 Loads of Stuff in the Frame 3.1.2 Lots of Contrast 3.1.3 Big Backgrounds 3.1.4 Edge Distortion

3.2 Separating Foreground and Background

3.2.1 Using Depth of Field 3.2.2 Using Contrast 3.2.3 Using Lighting Effects

3.3 Proximity

3.3.1 Physical Closeness 3.3.2 Metaphorical Closeness

3.4 Creating Depth

3.4.1 Using Layers 3.4.2 Using the Foreground 3.4.3 Using Lines 3.4.4 Using Contrast 3.4.5 Using Color 3.4.6 Using Content 3.4.7 Using Motion Blur

3.5 Exaggeration

3.5.1 Depth 3.5.2 Lines

4 Wide-Angle Lenses in Practice

4.1 Landscapes

4.1.1 Essentials 4.1.2 Other Tricks 4.1.3 Examples

4.2 Architecture

4.2.1 Essentials 4.2.2 Other Tricks 4.2.3 Examples

4.3 Street Photography

4.3.1 Essentials 4.3.2 Other Tricks 4.3.3 Examples

4.4 Portraits

4.4.1 Essentials 4.4.2 Other Tricks 4.4.3 Examples

5 The Technical View

5.1 Visual Sharpness

5.1.1 Depth of Field 5.1.2 Sharpness Vignette

5.2 Sharpness and Motion

5.2.1 Camera Shake 5.2.2 Rule of Thumb 5.2.3 Stability

5.3 Image Quality: Colors

5.3.1 Chromatic Aberrations

5.4 Image Quality: Distribution of Brightness

5.4.1 Vignetting from the Image Circle 5.4.2 Vignetting with Filters 5.4.3 Vignetting and Angular Response 5.4.4 Vignetting from Lens Hoods

5.5 Image Quality: Distortion

5.5.1 Computational Photography 5.5.2 Software

5.6 Image Quality: Skewed Lines

Fisheye Lenses

5.7 Image Quality: Field Curvature 5.8 Panoramas: Wide-Angle Photos without Wide-Angle Lenses

Panorama Photography Tips 5.8.1 Multi-Row Panoramas 5.8.2 Fill Functions 5.8.3 The Reduced-Depth-of-Field Trick

5.9 Lens Buyer’s Guide

Superzooms Wide-Angle Zooms Prime Lenses

6 Tilt-Shift Part 1: The Basics

6.1 Large-Format Capability in a Small Package

Tilt-Shift Lenses

6.2 Tilt-Shift Functionality

6.2.1 Shift 6.2.2 Tilt

6.3 Tilt-Shift in Practice

6.3.1 Tilting and Shifting 6.3.2 Rotation 6.3.3 The Image Circle 6.3.4 Shooting By Hand

6.4 Larger Sweet Spot 6.5 Tilt-Shift Zoom 6.6 Comparability 6.7 Tilt-Shift for Everyone

6.7.1 Second-Hand Gear 6.7.2 Rentals 6.7.3 Lensbaby 6.7.4 Freelensing 6.7.5 Tilt-Shift Adapters 6.7.6 Software Simulation

7 Tilt-Shift Part 2: In Practice

7.1 Architecture

7.1.1 Perspective Correction 7.1.2 Emphasizing Key Elements 7.1.3 The Vignette Trick 7.1.4 Depth of Field 7.1.5 Impossible Situations

7.2 Landscapes and Nature

7.2.1 Infinite Depth of Field 7.2.2 Shifting Emphasis 7.2.3 Parallel Trees 7.2.4 Water

7.3 Panoramas 7.4 Product Photography

7.4.1 Controlling Focus 7.4.2 Controlling Distortion

7.5 Portraits

7.5.1 Selective Focus 7.5.2 Longer Legs 7.5.3 Tricking Your Subject

7.6 Fake Miniatures

7.6.1 Pattern Recognition 7.6.2 Assumed Depth of Field 7.6.3 Other Tricks 7.6.4 Video Miniatures 7.6.5 Fake Miniatures without Tilt-Shift

7.7 Handheld Tilt-Shift

7.7.1 Focusing Screens 7.7.2 Using the Horizon

Epilogue: What Now?

Appendices

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