Introduction to Street Photography
Lens types
A course by Gustavo Minas , Photographer
About the video: Lens types
Overview
“In this class, I will talk about the characteristics of each type of lens and cell phone.”
In this video lesson Gustavo Minas addresses the topic: Lens types, which is part of the Domestika online course: Introduction to Street Photography. Learn how to create visual narratives out of everyday life and make an urban photoshoot.
Partial transcription of the video
“Lens types I’ll comment on how each type of lens affects the image by passing different impressions. At the end of the class, we will see a comparison of the same scene clicked with different focal lengths. In photography, we mainly use three types of lenses, wide angle, normal and tele. In addition, we can use the cell phone. The wide-angle lens is more open, from 18 to 35 millimeters, it is generally used for wider scenes. Its characteristic is to broaden the perspective, that is, increase the distance between the elements in the photo fields. And the more open it is, the more distortion ...”
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Course summary for: Introduction to Street Photography
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Documentary Photography, Lifestyle Photography, Outdoor Photography, Photography
Gustavo Minas
A course by Gustavo Minas
Gustavo Minas was born in 1981 in Cássia, a small city located in the State of Minas Gerais. After receiving a degree in journalism from the State University of Londrina, he went on to study the language and history of photography under Carlos Moreira in São Paulo and has been photographing the urban scenes of the cities he visits since 2009.
He currently works as a freelance journalist and photographer based in Brasília as well as teaching workshops across Brazil and abroad. In 2017, his photo series Rodoviária won the Picture of the Year LATAM award, in the category "The Future of Cities," and in 2019, he published his first book Maximum Shadow Minimal Light with Edition Lammerhuber, which was also exhibited in Hamburg that same year.
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