Soccer team pic

Let's say you doing soccer team portrait. Would you you use wide agle lens
and come closer to team or zoom them from longer distance?

jazu wrote:
Let's say you doing soccer team portrait. Would you you use wide agle lens
and come closer to team or zoom them from longer distance?


Likely a bit of both.. the wide angle would make for an interesting feel
to the shot, though depending on the 'wide', the distortion may not be
acceptable (assuming you are including *very* wide angle lenses here).
The Zoom would allow you to get everyone without distortion, but doesn't
have the 'close in' feel that a wide angle would give you.

Take a few of both types and see which works better for you

P.

jazu wrote:
Let's say you doing soccer team portrait. Would you you use wide agle lens
and come closer to team or zoom them from longer distance?

I'd go all out: I'd use a 300 or 400mm lens from quite close and
make a panorama out of it. Think of how many pixels your
finished panorama will have!

Works best if you freeze the soccer team first --- let them
stand there during a blizzard, then *carefully* blow away the
snow without thawing them. Any funny looking skin can be
handled by white balance.


On the other hand, a very wide angle has something as well ---
the people close to the borders are gonna look much spacier.
Useful to frighten the opposition.

-Wolfgang

Wolfgang Weisselberg wrote:
jazu wrote:
Let's say you doing soccer team portrait. Would you you use wide agle lens
and come closer to team or zoom them from longer distance?

I'd go all out: I'd use a 300 or 400mm lens from quite close and
make a panorama out of it. Think of how many pixels your
finished panorama will have!

Works best if you freeze the soccer team first --- let them
stand there during a blizzard, then *carefully* blow away the
snow without thawing them. Any funny looking skin can be
handled by white balance.


On the other hand, a very wide angle has something as well ---
the people close to the borders are gonna look much spacier.
Useful to frighten the opposition.

-Wolfgang
Thank you for your useful and insightful answer to this question.

P.

Pat wrote:
On May 27, 9:59?am, "jazu" wrote:
Let's say you doing soccer team portrait. Would you you use wide agle lens
and come closer to team or zoom them from longer distance?

I would use my 28-80 zoom. Other than saying that, the rest all
depends on home much room you have and how many players there are.

You don't want to be so close as to fish-eye anyone. But by the same
token, you want to be close enough for a litte fill flash and
highlight in the eyes.

Only the flash needs to be close enough. You only have to be as close
as the flash if you're using a flash which is attached to the
camera. Which is the easiest flash to use, but generally speaking
gives the worst results.

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