what mm lens was this shot with?

enginyr wrote in post #8080059
The point of this experiment was that the 50 85 135 or 70-200 may be optimum portrait lenses but you can't really tell 100% which is which.

Well I was 100% confident that it was the 35. I can't speak for others.

Of course you could be lying but that was the only wide angle option you provided. It could have been a 28mm or thereabouts.

cdifoto wrote in post #8080068
Buuuuuut you used a 35mm and that was obvious. To most of us anyway.

With 24,000 posts, you better get it right.

My post count has nothing to do with your game. Other than the fact that contributing to your thread bumped it up a couple.

I guessed 35 because the nose looks a little larger as if there is distortion from getting so close to the subject with a short lens. Or am I just imagining that?

krb wrote in post #8080115
I guessed 35 because the nose looks a little larger as if there is distortion from getting so close to the subject with a short lens. Or am I just imagining that?

Nope you're not imagining that. That's precisely why 50mm+ is preferred for portraiture.

There is clearly distortion in the image due to being close to the "model". The only way to be that close and still get all the subject is to use a WA lens.

For me the distortion was the dead give away.

cdifoto wrote in post #8080145
Nope you're not imagining that. That's precisely why 50mm+ is preferred for portraiture.

1/2 true. Well OK, all true but the statement can be misleading. The real answer is that the preferred portrait distance is 3 or 4 paces and at that distance, you'd need a short tele to fill the frame.

n1as wrote in post #8080276
There is clearly distortion in the image due to being close to the "model". The only way to be that close and still get all the subject is to use a WA lens.

For me the distortion was the dead give away.

Exactly. I would have been very surprised if it wasn't the 35mm.

krb wrote in post #8080115
I guessed 35 because the nose looks a little larger as if there is distortion from getting so close to the subject with a short lens. Or am I just imagining that?

Funny enough, not seeing nose larger unusually was the only reason I didn't go for 35mm.

enginyr wrote in post #8080059
The point of this experiment was that the 50 85 135 or 70-200 may be optimum portrait lenses but you can't really tell 100% which is which.

Fooling other into thinking that you used a proper lens when you didn't - is in fact NOT the point. You can shoot with whatever lens you want, but than when the bride breaks off her shoe in your backside -- don't come complaining to us about it.

The point of a lens is to give you the angle of view that you're looking for to match the scene you're trying to capture. The reason people say use a "portrait lens" is that those are the closest things to what the person actually looks like.

enginyr wrote in post #8079022
What I'd like to see is someone take a picture of the same person with multiple lenses all at the same distance.

All that would do is give you the exact same perspective but with different amounts of space around the face (or different crops of the face). It would be more instructive to frame the face the same with each lens by changing the distance, and then see what effect that change has on perspective.

Madweasel wrote in post #8098703
All that would do is give you the exact same perspective but with different amounts of space around the face (or different crops of the face). It would be more instructive to frame the face the same with each lens by changing the distance, and then see what effect that change has on perspective.

http://stepheneastwood​.com …ials_Lens_Persp​ective.htm

aram535 wrote in post #8089264
Fooling other into thinking that you used a proper lens when you didn't - is in fact NOT the point. You can shoot with whatever lens you want, but than when the bride breaks off her shoe in your backside -- don't come complaining to us about it.

The point of a lens is to give you the angle of view that you're looking for to match the scene you're trying to capture. The reason people say use a "portrait lens" is that those are the closest things to what the person actually looks like.

I didn't fool anyone. I asked a simple question . Now I see that even 50% of avid enthusiasts can't tell the difference, I won't be reaching in my bag as much to switch lenses.

Only complaint I hear from brides are, "you got my bad side".

enginyr wrote in post #8098870
Exactly what I was looking for

Just not what you said.