Lens based image making is the use of a specific lens to manipulate the appearance of a photograph to make the object/person appear bigger/smaller then in reality. Techniques with lenses are most commonly used in fashion shoots; to make models appear slimmer. Lenses include 35 mm camera, large format, point and shoot, telephoto, wide angle, zoom, enlarger. The characteristics associated with these lenses; speed, depth of field , etc. I first started to experiment with camera angle elusions using a 35-50mm lens. These angles included above the subject to make them appear smaller, below to make them appear taller and middle to get the realistic view of their body. These angles are commonly used in shoots to manipulate the shape and size of the human body to make it more 'desirable.' These images are then used in magazines and for advertising purposes.
After this, I used a lens baby lens. This lens is a manually operated tilt-shift lens with very limited depth of field that produces selective-focus images. Because of this, the images created are very unique. To operate the lens, you can bend, push and pull the lens to focus on one subject and make the outlining areas out of focus. This creates a dream like, hazy effect. This lens is most commonly used in music videos and dramatic images to create a modern and sometimes drug-reaction state.
The last lens I used was the telephoto lens. A telephoto lens is a specific type of a long-focus, wide-angle lens. This lens is most commonly used in fashion shoots as photographers prefer to shoot models form far away to make them appear slimmer. I found this the most difficult to use as the zoom is so extreme, its hard to focus freehand, although I think this would work most effectively with a tripod. I shot my subject from quite far away but it is almost impossible to tell this looking at the images.
These shots were all taken in natural light without flash and I did not edit them in anyway.
The lens I most enjoyed using was the lens baby. This is because I found it easy to use but it also produced, in my opinion, the most effective looking images. I would use this lens in the future for projects associated with young, modern techniques.
I think I need to improve on my use of the telephoto lens. This is because the images were not in focus as my hands were shaky. I could improve on this by using a tripod. I would use this lens for studio fashion shoots and landscape photography.
Research
fish eye lens
A fisheye lens is a wide-angle lens that takes in a broad, panoramic and hemispherical image. Originally developed for use in meteorology to study cloud formation and called "whole-sky lenses", fisheye lenses quickly became popular in general photography for their unique, distorted appearance. They are often used by photographers shooting broad landscapes to suggest the curve of the Earth. Hemispherical photography is used for various scientific purposes to study plant canopy geometry and to calculate near-ground solar radiation.
Telephoto lens
In photography and cinematography, a telephoto lens is a specific type of a long-focus lens in which the physical length of the lens is shorter than the focal length. This is achieved by incorporating a special lens group known as a telephoto group that extends the light path to create a long-focus lens in a much shorter overall design. The angle of view and other effects of long-focus lenses are the same for telephoto lenses of the same specified focal length. Long-focal-length lenses are often informally referred to astelephoto lenses although this is technically incorrect: a telephoto lens specifically incorporates the telephoto group.
Lens Baby
Lensbaby is a line of camera lenses for SLR cameras that combine a simple lens with a bellows or ball and socket mechanism for use in special-effect photography. A lensbaby can give effects normally associated with view cameras. The lenses are popular with photographers for the creative possibilities of the selective focus andbokeh effects.
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