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Shooting Portraits With a Wide Angle Lens

Chris Gampat
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02/15/2016
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Last Updated on 02/15/2016 by Chris Gampat

Chris Gampat The Phoblographer Sigma 24-35mm f2 review extras (20 of 34)ISO 1001-250 sec at f - 2.0

Though many photographers really don’t recommend shooting portraits with a wide angle lens, I have to admit that they’ve become better over the years and that some lenses are so good that any distortion that could mess with a person’s looks can be rendered acceptably.

The folks over at DPReview talk about this a bit in a new video that they created about shooting with the Sigma 24-35mm f2 lens. Rishi, the video’s host, states that wide angle lenses can even give you a perspective that you’d experience normally–and therefore it doesn’t try to hide anything the way that telephoto lenses can when it comes to body shapes.

However, Rishi talks about being attentive to proximity and focal length when shooting. For example, when subjects are too far to an edge, the features of the person can become stretched.

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Chris Gampat is the Editor in Chief, Founder, and Publisher of the Phoblographer. He provides oversight to all of the daily tasks, including editorial, administrative, and advertising work. Chris's editorial work includes not only editing and scheduling articles but also writing them himself. He's the author of various product guides, educational pieces, product reviews, and interviews with photographers. He's fascinated by how photographers create, considering the fact that he's legally blind./ HIGHLIGHTS: Chris used to work in Men's lifestyle and tech. He's a veteran technology writer, editor, and reviewer with more than 15 years experience. He's also a Photographer that has had his share of bylines and viral projects like "Secret Order of the Slice." PAST BYLINES: Gear Patrol, PC Mag, Geek.com, Digital Photo Pro, Resource Magazine, Yahoo! News, Yahoo! Finance, IGN, PDN, and others. EXPERIENCE: Chris Gampat began working in tech and art journalism both in 2008. He started at PCMag, Magnum Photos, and Geek.com. He founded the Phoblographer in 2009 after working at places like PDN and Photography Bay. He left his day job as the Social Media Content Developer at B&H Photo in the early 2010s. Since then, he's evolved as a publisher using AI ethically, coming up with ethical ways to bring in affiliate income, and preaching the word of diversity in the photo industry. His background and work has spread to non-profits like American Photographic Arts where he's done work to get photographers various benefits. His skills are in SEO, app development, content planning, ethics management, photography, Wordpress, and other things. EDUCATION: Chris graduated Magna Cum Laude from Adelphi University with a degree in Communications in Journalism in 2009. Since then, he's learned and adapted to various things in the fields of social media, SEO, app development, e-commerce development, HTML, etc. FAVORITE SUBJECT TO PHOTOGRAPH: Chris enjoys creating conceptual work that makes people stare at his photos. But he doesn't get to do much of this because of the high demand of photography content. / BEST PHOTOGRAPHY TIP: Don't do it in post-production when you can do it in-camera.