Canon Australia put up this nice little video about how you change up your visuals by changing your lenses. Sure it may sound fairly obvious, but watching this hammers home the point. They set up a friendly blind ‘competition’ between a photographer and a songwriter and have them tell some visual stories with lens choices.
Macro, Portrait, 50mm, and wide angle. Which would you choose to tell what story? What are your favourite lense choices? Our favourites if we’re using HDSLRs are to go with our 16-35 which gives us some leeway to capture much more of the subjects, and our 50 which tends to show off the human subjects in a really nice way.
The Canon video shows some really nice examples and contrasts between wides, and macros, but our takeaway is the creative use of camera angles and composition. Look at all the different angles, where you wouldn’t normally take a shot or video, then capture some of that energy. Get in close, get way back, try something from the top, bottom, or some other unusual angle. Get in close, like REAL close and take a shot from someone’s mouth/shoe/guitar/firehose/brick oven or what have you. Lens choices really just help to reinforce your creative vision, or visual style in that brief moment. And also, don’t hesitate to break the rule on what you’d normally use in a traditional shot. Rules are meant to be broken, so get out there and play!
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