{"id":232,"date":"2006-08-20T02:18:56","date_gmt":"2006-08-19T17:18:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2006-08-20\/232"},"modified":"2006-08-20T02:18:56","modified_gmt":"2006-08-19T17:18:56","slug":"an-18mm-lens-makes-anthony-into-a-giant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2006-08-20\/232","title":{"rendered":"An 18mm Lens Makes Anthony Into a Giant"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n<div id='josh232'>\n\n<style type=\"text\/css\">\n  #josh232 .img_center { padding-top: 10px; padding-bottom: 20px }\n<\/style>\n\n<div class='img_center'><b>Anthony is <span class='nobr'>a Giant!<\/span><\/b><br\/><a href=\"\/i\/_JEF018993.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/i\/_JEF018993_sm.jpg\" width=\"469\" height=\"700\"\nborder=\"0\"\nid=\"iJEF018993\"\/><\/a><\/div>\n\n\n<p>\n\nAnthony's 4.5-month-old cousin <a\nhref=\"\/blog\/2006-03-30\/169\">Josh<\/a> was here yesterday. <span class='nobr'>My sister<\/span> Marci came to pick over the stuff in our Cupertino house that\nwe're not bringing back to Japan (which is most of the stuff -- ugh, lots\nto get rid of).\n\n<\/p><p>\n\nWhen looking at the copious pictures <span class='nobr'>I took,<\/span> <span class='nobr'>I was struck<\/span> by the\nperspective of the shot above. <span class='nobr'>It was taken<\/span> with an 18mm lens, which means\nthat the size of something close to the lens becomes exaggeratedly large. <span class='nobr'>In this shot<\/span>, Anthony is about two feet closer to the lens than Josh (4\nfeet away instead of 6 feet), and so he looks <b>much<\/b> larger than Josh\nthan he actually is.\n\n<\/p><p>\n\nAs an aside, I'll mention that this is the reason that portrait shots are\nbest taken with somewhat of <span class='nobr'>a zoom<\/span> lens, such as 110mm. Such <span class='nobr'>a zoom<\/span>\nrequires that the subject be further away, making the difference in\ndistance between their nose and the rest of the face irrelevant. <span class='nobr'>A wide angle<\/span> lens allows <span class='nobr'>a shot<\/span> to be taken with the subject much closer to the\nlens, meaning that the &#8220;extra closeness&#8221; of their nose can become\nsignificant, leading to an exaggerated schnoz in the result. <span class='nobr'>It's actually<\/span> not the wide-angle lens that creates the exaggeration, but rather, its wide\nfield of view creates more fertile opportunities for exaggerated\nperspectives. <span class='nobr'>The shot above<\/span> couldn't have been taken with <span class='nobr'>a zoom,<\/span> but had\n<span class='nobr'>I taken<\/span> <span class='nobr'>a bunch<\/span> of shots with <span class='nobr'>a zoom<\/span> and stitched them together into <span class='nobr'>a big<\/span>\nmosaic of the same scene, the result would be the same.\n\n\n<\/p><p>\n\nIn the next shot, Anthony is only <span class='nobr'>a tad<\/span> closer to the lens than Josh, so\ntheir relative sizes in the image are closer to reality.\n\n<\/p>\n\n<div class='img_center'><a href=\"\/i\/_JEF018996.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/i\/_JEF018996_sm.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"435\"\nborder=\"0\"\nid=\"iJEF018996\"\/><\/a><br\/><b><span class='nobr'>A Perspective<\/span> Closer to Reality<\/b><\/div>\n\n<p>\nJosh has a sunny disposition, and is <span class='nobr'>a very<\/span> sweet baby.<\/p>\n\n<div class='img_center'><a href=\"\/i\/_JEF018988.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/i\/_JEF018988_sm.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"435\"\nborder=\"0\"\nid=\"iJEF018988\"\/><\/a><br\/><b>Josh Kreta<\/b><\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Anthony's 4.5-month-old cousin Josh was here yesterday. My sister Marci came to pick over the stuff in our Cupertino house that we're not bringing back to Japan (which is most of the stuff -- ugh, lots to get rid of). <\/p><p> When looking at the copious pictures I took, I was struck by the perspective of the shot above. It was taken with an 18mm lens, which means that the size of something close to the lens becomes exaggeratedly large. In this shot, Anthony is about two feet closer to the lens than Josh (4 feet away instead of [...]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}