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Photography Foundations: Specialty Lenses

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Overview

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From ultra-wide angle to ultra-telephoto to macro, tilt-shift and more, discover the creative options that specialized lenses and attachments provide.

Syllabus

Welcome
  • Welcome
  • Roadmap of the course
1. Understanding Specialty Lenses
  • Words about focal length
  • Understanding camera position
2. Working with Lens Attachments
  • What filters are for
  • Shopping for filters
  • Understanding neutral density filters
  • Applying neutral density filters
  • Polarizing filters
  • Some shooting tips for working with a polarizing filter
  • Using infrared filters
  • Processing the infrared image
  • Handling stuck filters
3. Working with Wide Angle
  • Working with ultra-wide lenses
  • Using a wide-angle lens
  • Understanding fisheye lenses
  • Working with fisheye lenses
  • Understanding fisheye exposure
  • Taking fisheye further
  • Processing fisheye and wide-angle images
  • Correcting tone in fisheye images
4. Shooting Super Telephoto
  • Understanding super telephoto
  • Shooting distant subjects
  • Compressing the sense of depth
  • Working with shallow depth of field
  • Working with teleconverters
  • Editing telephoto images
5. Understanding Macro
  • Understanding macro basics
  • Shooting close
  • Shooting macro
  • Working with a point-and-shoot for macro
  • Using a two-lens strategy
6. Using Tilt-Shift Lenses
  • Understanding tilt shift
  • Correcting perspective
  • Creating the toy effect
  • Deepening depth of field
7. Exploring Specialized Lenses
  • Working with specialty lenses
  • Using the Lensbaby
  • Working with the Lensbaby Macro attachment
  • Shooting with a Holga attachment
  • Using an alternative mount lens
  • Using super-fast lenses
  • Correcting Lensbaby images
8. Creating Lens Effects Digitally
  • Correcting perspective
  • Creating the toy effect
  • Getting the lo-fi Holga look
  • Reproducing the effect of a Lensbaby
  • Cropping and enlarging images
Conclusion
  • Choosing whether to borrow or buy
  • Goodbye

Taught by

Ben Long

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