Digital photography

Long lenses make the background appear close to the subject. Wide angles make it look far away. 50mm ish looks "normal".

I'm pretty sure its directly to do with focal length. If you don't move but change lenses, the effect still occurs.

Wasn't this all discussed a couple of pages back?

Yes, you do seem to be right about the perspective compression. It is a product of the distance from the subject and you will simply be cropping the picture. It's slightly counter intuitive because you are comparing your '40'mm lens and true 40mm lens not the 20 and 40.

However I'm sure depth of field increases with wide lenses and that doesn't change with crop factor. Tap in the 20 and 40 mm lengths to this calculator and you can see the different dof.

http://www.dofmaster.com/dofjs.html

A fast 20mm comparing with a 40/2 or a 50/1.4, not really. Fast ultra wides are usually huge too. Horses for courses though.

I've not been using crop bodies for a while, missed the incredible 20mm pancake. They are small!

The article seems to have answered my question: lens compression is a product of the distance from the the subject.

Great.

My wording "happens in the lens" was quite misleading (english is not my first language), sorry for the confusion.

Is anybody from this thread on society6 ?

Canon 1000D / stock lens

Canon 1000D / stock lens

Those two pictures are great. I really like the aspect ratio you've been using lately too.

Thanks.

Yea, squares...
...to be honest I just miss shooting Hasselblad 6x6 so much, that's maybe why I crop em like that these days...

Or this;

Fucking imageshack hosting, that animated gif is wrecking the whole page for me.

Can anyone explain this weird shadow-like effect behind his right shoulder? The pic is unedited and the effect is the same on a burst of 3 shots.

He's steaming with sweat.

anti-aura
devil spawn I assume?

He's got the moon behind him.

It's like the camera applied it's own opinion there.
There's that white bit surrounding most of the rest of him too.

Jpg or raw?

Can it be the high contrast that messes with the sensor / output?

It's a jpg. I suspect it is to do with contrast, sometimes there is a kind of halo effect when the sky is dark and the subject is lit brightly. Plus the shirt he is wearing is fluoro yellow. It doesn't occur like this on any of the other frames though so not a disaster.

Probably to do with the contrast of fluro against a dark blue sky. The camera's sharpening/contrast settings are just confused.

I'm just going to blame it on the sun bouncing off Pique's big, bald head.

Maybe fluoro registers on wavelengths the sensor isn't set up for?

Really want a go on the Fuji X-T1. Just seen the review on strobist of the 10-20. Very tempted.

D-t1? Not x-t1?

Fat fingers. Yes.