Thanks very much Jeahn! Most definitely...it's all about those relative distances! Thanks for watching. 😁👍

I understand this topic, but if you carefully watch the words you spoke during this video, there are references to the lens focal length being the cause of the image compression when you and I both know that the focal length of the lens has zero effect on the apparent compression of the perspective. Instead, it is always only the subject-lens distance, and the proprtions of the subject-lens distance relative to the backround-lens distance. The use of the 85mm lens is not what is causing the background to compress toward the subject and appear to be closer to the subject. Instead, it is simply the fact that at the further subject-lens distance used with the 85mm lens, the distance between the backround and the subject became proportionally smaller relative to the greater subject-lens distance. And this difference in the proportional distances is what is causing the background to appear closer to the subject when using an 85mm lens at a greater distance to the subject than when a 28mm lens is used at a closer distance to the subject. So it is always distance and relative distance, and never the focal length itself that is changing the "look" of the photograph.@@mikesphotography

@@joansmith7649 thanks for your in-depth reply. I make these videos to try and help people understand things I'm photography better, in my spare time, I might not get the wording absolutely correct, but from reading most of the comments... it has helped. I'm sorry that some of the nuances in my words don't fit your criteria perfectly, but after all, we're all human and not robots... but by the looks of it AI will be making most videos here in the near future, so they will hopefully be grammatically perfect...

I appreciate your response and I am glad that you and other photographers are helping others with their photography. I am always open to learning new things, so I routinely watch videos on photography. And I have seen so so so many videos that leave photographers wondering about the root cause of perspective effects, that I do feel compelled to leave comments. But that being said, I am grateful for the videos. Thank you.@@mikesphotography

Indeed!! It is a fun one to play with. I often shoot my landscapes with a telephoto lens and this really compresses the background with the subject. Thanks for watching 😁👍

That's great to hear! I'm glad it has helped. Thanks for watching 😁👍

@@mikesphotography would definitely watch more.

This is also destroys the idea of a "full frame" look. It's also a myth

Glad I could help Campbell! 😁👍

And thank you for watching Thorsten! 😁👍

Great to hear Jamie! It's really worth getting out with a zoom on your camera and then just trying to shoot the same subject in different ways...another one is at a sporting event where the cars/people/bikes/horses are moving around a course or track, then you can just perch up in one spot and then try different lenses at different focal lengths, telephoto lenses for when they are far away and a wide angel when they are closer...my favourite setup for shooting events is a two camera setup, with the 16-35mm and the 70-200mm f2.8 lenses...(way too expensive to buy as I only do a few events every now and then so I just rent those two when I need them 😆). Glad to hear the building in the window example helped! 👍 Thanks for watching. 😁

No worries, and you're right ... zooming with your feet is a way to get a different image and it is very different to using a zoom and standing in the same place. Thanks for watching 😁👍

No worries Nathan, great to hear I could help. Thanks for watching 😁👍

No worries, Thanks for watching 😁👍

That's great to hear I could help! Thanks for watching 😁👍

That's great to hear Melvin, thanks for watching 😁👍

Thanks very much Paul! Haha!! Yep, gotta keep that camera bag close by...and also use it as a reference point so I know where to stand!! 😆 That's a prime example of how this is used to tell a certain story...many groups of people can be shown to be huge by shooting at a low angle on a long lens, or by shooting wide, and making the place look more sparse...like smaller crowds in-front of the Whitehouse 4 years ago!! 😆😆😆 It's well worth going out and experimenting with a zoom lens with different subjects. As always thanks for watching and commenting dude, much appreciated. 😁👍

Thanks very much Mirabel! Yes, sometimes it can looked photoshopped when the moon is huge in the frame. You just need a really really long telephoto lens. 600mm on a full frame camera will get it quite big in the frame, but something like an 800-1000mm works even better without cropping the final photo. Out of curiosity, do you have a link to the photo you saw? Sometimes people say it is one photo, but they do photoshop them ... so it would be interesting to see it as the blood moon can be tricky to shoot in one shot. Thanks for watching 😁👍

Thanks very much! I have a few more outdoor videos planned...and it definitely does feel quite liberating getting out and talking to camera! 👍 I'm still working on the studio talking to camera piece...but it's a slow development...and a tiny room 😆...hopefully I can get it looking slightly less claustrophobic soon... Thanks for watching and thanks for your thoughts...it's always good to get peoples opinion of my setup so I can make it better in the future...😁👍

Thanks very much David. It is a very interesting one, I use this so much in my photography to get different perspectives of the same subject. Thanks for watching 😁👍

Thanks so much!! 😁👍

Yesss! That's a perfect example of using this technique to add drama to your photos! I love shooting at race tracks, so much fun and so many tings to photograph!! Thanks for sharing Philip! 😁👍

No worries dude, sometimes life gets in the way...and sometimes the algorithm sends other things your way! Glad to have you back! 😁👍

Great to hear I could help. Thanks for watching 😁👍

Thanks so much! 😁👍

Great to hear it has helped!! Thanks for watching 😁👍

Thanks very much Sammy! 😁👍

No worries, thanks for watching 😁👍

Thanks very much Abhra! 😁👍

No worries, thanks for watching 😁👍

Excellent! Enjoy Anchorage! 😁👍

Thanks very much! 😁👍

No worries, thanks for watching Ken. 😁👍

Thanks very much. 😁👍

And thanks for watching! 😁👍

Thanks very much and thanks for watching Abdulla 😁👍

@@mikesphotography and I just had to subscribe 🙇🏿

Thanks David. 😁👍

Great to hear it has helped Garry!! Thanks for watching 😁👍

Great to hear it was clear...it's definitely worth trying when you're out and about with the camera. 😁👍

Great to hear I could help Scott. 😁👍

Lol, well great to hear I could help!! Thanks for watching 😁👍

Thanks very much! 😁👍

Glad to hear it has helped! Most definitely, it's as useful to video as it is to photography and you can get some really great looking clips by using this technique. Thanks for watching 😁👍

No worries, thanks for watching 😁👍

Thanks so much! 😁👍

And thank you for watching Brandon. 😁👍

Thanks very much! 😁👍

No worries, Thanks for watching 😁👍

Thanks so much!! Great to hear you liked it!! ...and thanks for subscribing, much appreciated! 😁👍

No worries Lance, it would always annoy me as well when people would say things like there is no such thing as lens compression...there is, it's just a case of knowing how it actually works...like you say, some people clearly didn't do their maths homework!! 😆😆😆 As always, thanks for watching and commenting, much appreciated. I hope things are getting back to normal for you guys in Japan. 😁👍

Thanks for the tip for a future video, I'll make a note of that. Thanks for watching 😁👍

Thanks dude! It was good to get out...and now the temperature has dropped a bit I can last a while longer out there!! 😆 Hopefully more to come outdoors!! It's pretty chaotic here but in the park there are a few quiet spots... Work has a way of sneaking up on you like that sometimes, and then all of a sudden, you're doing all of the hours under the sun! ... hopefully you'll get out soon with the camera. We're all good thanks, I hope you and the family are doing well too! 👍

Haha!! Good point...😆 The 100-400mm is a fantastic focal range...got it on my wishlist as well...which one were you thinking of, the sony or the sigma?

@@mikesphotography The Fujifilm one, because I'm on their X mount (the cost is somewhere between sigma and sony). So I don't have to spend time weighting my decision 😁

Haha! Excellent. They're all good these days, and like you said, no need to debate which one to get. 😁👍

Glad you liked it, thanks for watching! 😁👍

Great to hear you liked it!! Thanks for watching 😁👍

And thanks for watching Anil! 😁👍

Thanks so much! A lot more to come! 😁👍

Thanks so much Michael! Yes we are living here for the time being. The outdoor parts were in Lumphini Park. Ah that's annoying...covid has really messed up everyones plans for 2020...let's hope it gets back to normal soon. Hopefully I'll have some more videos out and about so you can soak up some of the Thailand vibes in future videos. Thanks for watching 😁👍

Thanks very much!

Thanks so much!! 😁👍

Thanks so much Diego! 😁👍

No worries, I hope it has helped! Thanks for watching 😁👍

Great to hear I could help!! Thanks for watching 😁👍

Thanks so much Philip! This was in Lumphini Park...right in the middle to get away from the traffic as much as possible! 😆 Thanks for watching 😁👍

@@mikesphotography Thwre are some fascinating locations here

Thanks skyview! 😁👍

Yes, that is correct. If you shoot from one location with any lens and crop in to the same framing, the compression won't change. 👍

@@mikesphotography ok, tnx

Most definitely...it's amazing how different you can make someone look with different focal lengths. 👍

Haha! Yes indeed. My wife and I lived in Thailand for two years, from 2020 until 2022. 😁👍

@@mikesphotography Oh I am surprised. What did you do there for 2 years May i ask?

My wife is a teacher and she worked at one of the schools there ... I did photography, but COVID meant not much work, so I kept working on my channel. 😁👍

Yes, definitely! I do talk about that later in the video. Thanks for watching. 👍

No. Compression is created by changing your relative position in relation to the subject and the distance to the background. Cropping does not change any of these distances.

Basically when you use a telephoto lens, if you step back to get the same framing of a person after taking the first shot with a wider lens....because of your different distance to your subject, the background will look different between the two different shots.

Haha! Are you trying to manipulate the algorithm? 😆 No worries; thumbs down, thumbs up, it doesn't really matter as youtube sees it as an interaction which is all good! 😁

The best way to do that would be to buy a telescope and an adapter that would accommodate your phone. 😁👍

@@mikesphotography so theres no lens for it?

@@mikesphotography so theres no lens for it?

I don't know what phone you have...

@@mikesphotography i only have a realme 6

Yep, that's one of my points in this video. When you move away from your subject and use a longer focal length, you compress the features of the face, but when you come closer and use a wide angle lens, it stretches out the features, and at that extreme focal length, it distorts... Thanks for watching 😁👍