Did You Really Just Shoot a Portrait with a Wide-Angle Lens??? | Replay Reply

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Seth Miranda is a NYC photographer known for beauty and SFX makeup Photography. His work has been featured in MakeUp Artist Magazine and IMATS, billboard, and print ads for agencies like Deutsch. Seth is a content producer on AdoramaTV and has been a speaker at conventions like ImagingUSA, Photokina, ShutterFest, PhotoPlus, and WPPI.
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THANKS SO MUCH FOR WATCHING!

[@akivac4490]

not gonna lie, it's crazy how much super-underrated photo knowledge you packed into a 14:02 minute video lol. Thank you!!

[@LastXwitness]

appreciate you !

[@alexanderpons9246]

Excellent advice Seth Miranda! Yes, once we know the basics/standards go out and create your point of view/style. Thank you ADORAMA for these videos on your channel!

[@LastXwitness]

thank you for swinging through and being part of this channel

[@TMMS1984]

Thank you for reminding photographers that photography is still art and not just engineering ❤

[@LastXwitness]

Appreciate you watching we try to keep it human here

[@patrick8035]

Great video! So cool that you’re taking the time to revisit comments from older videos - good to hear it’s going to be a series and look forward to seeing more!

[@LastXwitness]

Appreciate you joining us here

[@richardbalch8763]

Really great concept! I look forward to future videos. Great way to expand on concepts, techniques, processes and philosophies by responding to viewer reactions.

[@LastXwitness]

Glad you’re into it thanks for checking it out

[@pasakuma6113]

Seth's videos are always full of very useful information!

[@LastXwitness]

Really appreciate that thank you glad they’re worthwhile

[@Snapit551]

Your videos are always packed with great information and knowledge! Thankyou

[@LastXwitness]

Thank you so much 🫀

[@PeterWigenBjarnoe]

It is very inspiring to hear about your answers and ideas. You have a different approach to portrait photography, which is very interesting.

[@LastXwitness]

Appreciate that thank you

[@joeyrobertson4926]

A lot of helpful information Seth. Great series!! Thanks for sharing 📷🙏

[@LastXwitness]

Thank you! 🫀

[@kenweir5630]

Hey Seth, thanks for the video. The more I watch your streams, the more I realise I don't know, this is why your subscriber count is heading north.

[@LastXwitness]

We are ALL constantly learning. Thanks for taking the ride with us

[@GiannisVeronis]

Seth people get caught up on the theory book instead fulfiling their artistic goals...we are first artists and secondly anything else ;)

[@mrpear7]

Great straight-to-the-point info. Love the shirt.

[@LastXwitness]

Thanks. Felt appropriate for this heat wave we are having in NYC

[@charlie_james_photo]

A lot of people are afraid to use wide angle when it comes to portraits. My favorite lens to shoot portraits with is a 16mm sigma 1.4. it's the crop version, but man do I love the look that comes with it. It's just different!

[@AlbertSousa]

How much of the body are you shooting and at what distance?

[@LastXwitness]

All that matters

[@brad_in_yyc]

Every decision you make in a frame is like a word in a sentence. Those are words for photographers to live by!

[@LastXwitness]

I push that philosophy every chance I get

[@stevenmeehin]

Always love seeing Seth just drop knowledge. King shit.

[@LastXwitness]

lol thanks I..think?

[@Maz-2393]

Wide angle lens portraits are great, just make sure you keep the subject in the centre of the frame to minimise facial distortion; or stick them on the edge of the frame if you want to accentuate their features for artistic reasons. Great video Seth!

[@LastXwitness]

Basically

[@FelixRodriguez-v6w]

Great idea to review the video with the questions that the topic brought to the surface. It a helpful way to clear up creative ideas to different subject matters

[@LastXwitness]

Glad this hits for ya. Thanks

[@raimonurmi7203]

Great idea to review the video and your videos are always full of very useful information!

[@AlbertSousa]

Nice. I find for a head shot, a 80mm puts me in the sweet spot with regards to distance. Doesn’t block the lights and a comfortable distance to the subject.

[@LastXwitness]

Awesome

[@loihpatli]

Thanks for the vid Seth! Keep them going!

[@LastXwitness]

Gonna try. Thanks for checking it out

[@rogermanning4353]

Brilliant, great way to make those comments/questions pay!

[@LastXwitness]

🙏🫀

[@ejorbe]

You just dropped a lot of knowledge and thank you for that! I really enjoyed this type of video and it did not feel like 14 minutes! I would definitely love to see more videos like this one! I hope people appreciate it!

[@LastXwitness]

Is 14mins kinda the limit you feel for this kinda video?

[@ejorbe]

@@LastXwitness I would say 12 to 15 minutes would be a good time limit. It is enough time to get questions answered and not too much time that attention span would drop. With the energy you gave in this video, and to the questions, it always felt engaging and kept the video moving. Take my information with a grain of salt, as I would not consider myself an expert, I just play one at home.

[@LastXwitness]

@@ejorbeappreciate your feedback 🙏

[@ihknilsen]

Wonderful video Seth!

[@LastXwitness]

Thanks Ken!

[@HooahArmyMan]

Great idea!

[@LastXwitness]

Was all Fernando’s idea

[@peterikier1985]

Great video! Love how you share wisdom en passant. The problem with flash not firing can also be that it is in slave mode and waits for a remote trigger signal. Some don't react to a hotshoe when in slavery. My V1 has been on my camera only once (I prefer a little distance between camera and flash) and I had the exact same problem.

[@LastXwitness]

Sure that can be a reason ya. This comment specifically was about the Profoto speed lights which don’t really have a mode like that but rather just the unit being a transmitter or not and everything else just stays as an always active remote unit . Otherwise the reason it wouldn’t communicate is you shut the actual head to an off setting but still powered on but in that case it’s a big display on the screen saying it’s off so I don’t many people get stuck on that haha. But yea every system has their methods and quirks

[@jpdj2715]

John's question about the 50 and that lens moving externally. A bit of the nerdy details follow that would not fit in a short video. That lens has a classical lens design where all elements move together in a fixed arrangement. With these lenses, the focal length, the maximum aperture, and the aperture you set on the aperture ring, only are correct when the lens is focused at infinity. When we focus such a lens closer by, the glass elements shift away from the film/sensor and consequently it has a longer focal length where the actual length depends on focusing distance. This is called "focus breathing" and is very visible in movie takes where the lens's angle changes corresponding to the focusing distance and associated focal length. "Aperture breathing" is the corollary of this. As the focal length increases, the aperture (entry pupil) keeps the same diameter. But as we - industry, physics - express the aperture as fraction of focal length, a longer f in f/number also means we need a larger number in f/number. My 105/2.8 macro lens at 1:1 reproduction ratio goes to f/4.3 that it displays in its own display and we can deduce that the focal length at that moment (focusing distance) has become some 160mm. 105mm/2.8 gives an entry pupil of 37.5mm and 160mm/4.3 also gives 37.5mm. At that moment, everything displayed on a conventional lens is a "lie". Note that actual effective Depth of Field (DoF) depends on not just the effective f/number, effective focal length, and focusing distance, but a few other parameters as well. So, yes, the DoF scale on your lens is a "lie" too. Between focus breathing and aperture breathing, the latter is more annoying to me in a movie take where I move focus to the equivalent of 1 f/stop farther opened and the take gets 1 EV lighter. "Cine primes" suppress the breathing with zoom elements that precisely compensate the breathing effect. Gas breathing. So when the entire lens moves away from the film/sensor, the camera/lens space behind the lens's glass gets larger and hence the air pressure in there gets lower. Now air wants from the outside in and potentially pushes dust or dirt along. Lenses that zoom internally are one thing. Lenses that focus internally another. And lenses that keep internal gas pressure and maintain weather sealing while we zoom or focus are yet another.Classical lenses have none of this. More modern 1, 2, or 3. So you can have a modern zoom lens that keeps everything internal but still focus breathes. My 105/2.8 "S" class macro lens focuses internally, yet it has focus breathing. It uses floating elements to focus but does not manage focus breathing with that. It however has no gas breathing. And it maintains optical qualities down to 1:1 while classical lens design is optimised for one specific distance - that would be infinity for normal lenses or closer by for macro lenses (ideal for portraits in studios ...) Modern lens designs may have different elements floating relative to the rest for different purposes. A Nikon Z 85/1.2S has two AF motors for this reason. With that it controls both focus breathing and focusing, as well as optical flaws that vary with focusing distance. And it keeps gas pressure between lens zones equal, so there is nop gas breathing. I think.

[@ralfpassing]

Very good format

[@LastXwitness]

Thank you 🙏 🫀

[@DaKloot]

Nice, answers from the creators them selves, are creators going to answer the questions on their own videos or will you do all the questions?

[@LastXwitness]

🤷‍♂️ right now you’re stuck with me

[@fotogfitzfoto412]

👍

[@LastXwitness]

🙏

[@LtDeadeye]

During the flash section, it appears you’re using continuous light and then the flash pops. Every time I ask others how to do this I either get no answer or I’m told it’s impossible. Are you using two different lights to achieve that?

[@zaqueenateatro]

modeling light maybe

[@alun7006]

Those profoto speedlights have modelling lights.

[@LastXwitness]

Hey can you elaborate on this a little I’m not totally sure what you’re referring to? Meaning we fil the videos with constant but are shooting stills with strobe? Or the strobes have constant lights active while they strobe? In which case that’s just the modeling light found in almost all mono lights , pack heads and even some small strobe now a days

[@LtDeadeye]

@@LastXwitness Thank you for the reply! Unless my eyes are playing tricks on me, it seems you used a modeling light actively while they strobed. I was just wonering if that was possible because I was told it wasn't.

[@LastXwitness]

@@LtDeadeyesure it’s possible to have the modeling light running while have the strobe fire for the shot. But are you asking if both the modeling light and strobe are affecting the shot? Like playing a role in the exposure together?

[@JuanRodriguez-ko7eh]

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[@marcusbeasley3212]

Interesting new series this is. Hopefully the theme of this one ends of being "get out of the box" because I've done a good amount of portrait work on the wider end ever since I got the 18 1.4 and the GF 20-35. Anything is a viable portrait lens as long as it tells the story that you need it to tell.

[@LastXwitness]

Pretty much