Hey I have noticed a lot of my clients latley when looking in my computer aftr thshots saying that a lot of my subjects look short legged or short in general..
Specially when using wide angle 65mm on the P30...
I usually try to shoot around knee level or lower and straigtht on but I also find them looking short for some reason..
Anybody have any suggestions or reason why.
I was always thought that the taller you want them you shoot a little around the knee waist area... Today I just a pretty tall guy. 6'3 and in the screen he does actually look a lot shorter and I have noticed this a lot lately.
You here different people with different suggestion. eye level, waist, knee and below.
What is the best way to make some look the tallest especially with wide angle 65mm lens for RZ for example...
Thanks for any suggestions.
Snook
Hey Snook
Using Nikon cameras (film) I used to put on the 35mm lens for full-length model shots if I wanted a little distortion; I used to sit on the floor on my ass, with the camera at around 74cms off the ground, which is where my face seems to fit the tape I am using on your behalf. This gave a line of fire that usually hit the bottom of normal skirt (not a mini) hems and the problem then could be that the inside of the back of the skirt would sometimes show - not a pretty sight, so something of which to be aware.
Putting it right into the early to mid-sixties, we used to tend to use the 35mm lens also for half-lengths, which if one stood a little high, gave a slightly elongated look to the top of head, something which now sounds daft but then looked cool. (That's one of the reasons I suggest elewhere that one ignore political correctness: it's unnatural and will, like all fads, fade of its own accord, thank God, but not in time to have saved my calendar business.)
With the 'blad, the 50mm gave much the same look, but didn't seem to work as well for some reason and I hated using the 80mm, which left the 150 for most of anything where I had distance between girl and self. 180mm would have been nicer - it certainly was on the old Mamiya C33(?) TLR I once had. Come to think of it, perhaps the reason the 35mm worked with the Nikon was that one
felt good working with it, not so good with the bigger, heavier box, which needed a tripod outdoors or electronic alone indoors. Once you stick a camera on a tripod it tends to get stuck there for the duration. Not good practice.
Can you post anything to illustrate your problem?
Rob C