That is the absolute clearest focal length explanation and demonstration I have ever watched.

@PhotographyOnline

3 жыл бұрын

That’s good to hear. We hope it was useful.

@remco2777

3 жыл бұрын

Agree, for me too.

@melbies

3 жыл бұрын

I totally agree. I have been watching and trying to pick up photography tips for about a year now, and this explanation was the best by far. So grateful to have come across this video! Thank you :)

@molokaibicycles

3 ай бұрын

Great video! I find it quite educating. Although your interpretation of focal length compression is quite accurate, we must take into consideration the terminology itself. An example. In layman’s term: If a friend comes up to you and says “You see that building over there?” You would probably say: “Yes”. However, technically, you do not actually see the building. What you see, is the light reflecting off of the building. In total darkness, the human eye can not see that building. Only a photographer will really understand the theory of light under normal conditions. With that being said, compression in telephoto images is a universally accepted layman’s way of explaining the parallax effect we perceive. Just a thought. And again, thank you I enjoy all of your videos.

Marcus the pictures of your mum were lovely. This struck a chord with me as my mum detested having her photo taken, and, as she’s just gone into a care home suffering Alzheimer’s and Dementia, the chance of a candid at home are lost forever. I have very few pictures to show my children aged 4, 6 and 8 when they’re older. People take note................

@PhotographyOnline

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for sharing your views. The reason for the feature was to try to inspire people to take photos of family while they have the chance, so hopefully it will be absorbed by some.

@Bolton115

3 жыл бұрын

@@PhotographyOnline My Dad hated having his picture taken most of the time, so after he died at 52 I don't have nearly enough pictures to show his grand babies, the younger of which he never got to meet. I know where you're coming from, Marcus. Thank you for sharing.

I've watched several of you alls videos I have enjoyed them all. Very informative Thank You all! Good job great team work!

Markus, your daughter is adorable! "Strike the pose" and she moves right to it with a great smile. LOL Awesome!

@PhotographyOnline

3 жыл бұрын

She's been well trained!

Another great and informative show. I look forward to these every month. please keep up the great work you all do.

@PhotographyOnline

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks, will do!

The feature on the lenses was fantastic - really well done, very informative and superbly explained. A very enjoyable episode yet again from the team! - looking forward to the next already!

@PhotographyOnline

3 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

I am so glad I discovered this show. I learn sooo much from all of you. Y'all make it very simple and easy to follow. I would love to take some photos of the castles and other historic places. Keep up the amazing work..can't wait till the next show....❤

@PhotographyOnline

3 жыл бұрын

Awesome! Thank you!

Great show again, Thank you, and great explanation debugging the myths over compresssing scenes with telephoto lenses.

@PhotographyOnline

3 жыл бұрын

Glad you found it useful Ian. More of the same stuff to come.

Another great video as always. The focal length was explained by Marcus brilliantly. Look forward to the next one as usual.

@PhotographyOnline

3 жыл бұрын

Cheers Tim. Glad you enjoyed it. All the best

wow, thank you Marcus for the explanation of focal length. You made is so easy to understand. thanks. Also thanks to the whole team for a most entertaining and informative show, as always.

@PhotographyOnline

3 жыл бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

I've only just found this channel. I love this!! The item about lenses was a real revelation. And Xiana is a total natural !!! This whole episode was packed full of awesome information. I'll be exploring the rest of the channel more when I get some more time and I look forward to the next episode.

@PhotographyOnline

3 жыл бұрын

Welcome on board. Glad you found us.

Great show as usual, love the variety of topics, look forward to the next as I think I recognised Mr. B. in the darkroom at the end. Thanks.

@PhotographyOnline

3 жыл бұрын

Well recognised

Again a show with great content, especially the Marcus explains things type of feature. For my bags, I got the Peak Design Sling 10l for my birthday so I am currently in love with it and go for shorter walks and less gear. Works for me 👍

@PhotographyOnline

3 жыл бұрын

Cheers Stefan.

My favourite, most practical bags is always the one I’m going to buy next.

@PhotographyOnline

3 жыл бұрын

At least you have good incentive to keep buying!

@timothylinn

3 жыл бұрын

Hahaha. So true. That said, there has been a lot of innovation in bag design over the last five or six years. WANDRD got closer to designing my perfect bag on their first attempt than any of the established companies did over the previous 25 years. I love that we are no longer captive to the priorities and whims of a handful of bag designers now.

Greetings from Pakistan. I must say this episode made me unlearn something that I learnt and believed for more than 30 years. No one has ever explained it better than Marcus, you did. Absolutely amazing. The family bits of your and other hosts really added a lot to this episode. I am so glad that I found this channel.

Lad's this is the best show to date. absolutely brilliant. great job. love it!!

@PhotographyOnline

3 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it

Photography online just keeps improving with every episode. I enjoyed and, more importantly, learned something from every contributor to yesterday’s show. Well done to the entire team!

@PhotographyOnline

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching Alun. Glad it was helpful to you.

Perspective explained so well 👍

Finally someone how shows us the facts! Very good lesson! I really enjoy the part of the focal lengths. That is why I keep a frame in my bag to pre visualise the scene.

@PhotographyOnline

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah we were getting bored hearing everyone talking about lens compression so thought we’d explain things clearly.

Another well balanced episode. Lots of explanation and information , and some charming moments

@PhotographyOnline

3 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it

Another great show. Really enjoyed it and picked up some great knowledge as always. Marcus and Shiana will soon have their own comedy programme, but the explanation was spot on. The section on family portraits hit home as I recently lost my father and have hardly any photos of him in recent years. Ruth as ever the perfect host to link all the segments together and enjoyed watching her take her family portraits. Keep it up team !

@PhotographyOnline

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching Mark. Sorry to hear about your father. Hopefully you have some nice shots to remember him by. Thanks for your continued support. All the best.

Great clarification on focal lengths!!!!! I really appreciate this!

@PhotographyOnline

3 жыл бұрын

Great to hear it was useful Carolyn. All the best

thank you so much for clearing up the lens debate. Fantastic!

@PhotographyOnline

3 жыл бұрын

Well, someone had to! Thanks for watching George.

Great show as always! Love learning from you guys!

@PhotographyOnline

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching!

Fantastic video with great tips and pointers. Thank you soo much for sharing your considerable knowledge.

@PhotographyOnline

3 жыл бұрын

You’re welcome Ajay. Hope it is useful to you.

Brilliant video as usual and always looking forwards to seeing your great videos.

@PhotographyOnline

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you very much!

The best photography channel on KZread. Brilliant shows very time, well done all involved.

@PhotographyOnline

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks very much Jeff. We hope you continue to enjoy our future content.

Super edition. Loved the the DIY mic segment. I wholeheartedly agree about the importance of capturing portraits of our loved ones for posterity.

@PhotographyOnline

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks fot watching Adrian

Another Top notch show Entertained, educated and more Looking forward to next month already

@PhotographyOnline

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks very much.

Amazing video, it clarifies a lot of my confusion on focal length and lenses.

@PhotographyOnline

3 жыл бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

Very touching, poignant bit on family portraits. Ty for being the best photography show on yt.

@PhotographyOnline

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching and for providing your kind feedback,

GREAT explanation re focal length and compression. And the little girl is a STAR. She ads such beautiful energy to the whole video. Thank you for all of our efforts.

@PhotographyOnline

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching TJ

Cutest foreground subject ever! Thanks for a terrific episode. 📸

@PhotographyOnline

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching

Another great show guys! Superb content. Thank you!!

@PhotographyOnline

3 жыл бұрын

Cheers Roger

Finally someone explained the compression correctly and mainly easily to understand! I've been fighting with this opinion couple times but with no luck! It is about the perspective and not the lens! Thank you for that👍 from now on I will be sharing this video every time when someone starts about how nice compression this or that lens have!

@PhotographyOnline

3 жыл бұрын

Glad it was useful Marek. There are many photographers out there who struggle with this, so thanks for helping to explain the facts to them!

Great explanation of focal length and distance influencing the scene!

@PhotographyOnline

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching and taking the time to comment.

You say tomato, I say tomata...when photographers talk about compression they generally mean keeping the foreground subject the same size and using focal length and distance from foreground subject to "compress" the background. While distance from the subject matters, so too does focal length as you change distance. You kinda proved that point in the first 14min.

EXCELLENT WORK!! Cristal Clear, to the point explanations!!! You just got a new subscriber from Texas, U.S.A.

@PhotographyOnline

3 жыл бұрын

Awesome, thank you!

Can't wait for this, I want to be be a photographer so I think this will help thanks mate!

@PhotographyOnline

3 жыл бұрын

Happy to help!

Great explanations for me, especially the focal length. Thankyou very much indeed.

@PhotographyOnline

3 жыл бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

Just happened along and found your video, so inspiring, easy to understand and immediately had to share in our FB Photography Group.

@PhotographyOnline

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks very much Barry. Welcome to our channel.

The last time I saw the "compression" effect and the actual effect of perspective and focal length/subject distance explained as well as here was in the (probably early) 80s in Modern Photography magazine, that showed a similar sequence of photos. Hearing the myths from other sources has driven me nuts for decades! Well done!

@PhotographyOnline

2 жыл бұрын

Cheers Dave

Great explanation of focal length by Markus and his daughter. BAGS! What a can of worms you opened there! There is no such thing as the perfect bag for all occasions. Thanks Harry, now you have me looking for a smaller 'short walk' bag. Your thoughts about family portraits struct a personal cord. Thank you! Great content all around ...as usual

@PhotographyOnline

3 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it

Informative, interesting and entertaining - as usual. I found the demonstration of the effect of focal length and the distance to the subject particularly interesting. Best wishes to the team.

@PhotographyOnline

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks Peter. Glad to hear it was helpful

Great focal length myth buster ---but with visuals-- and this is what is needed for one to go out and experiment on their own-- This is how learning takes place thank you

@PhotographyOnline

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks Tom. Great to hear it was helpful.

As always, absolutely excellent and Cristal clean teaching. What gems this team are churning out! Thank you!

@PhotographyOnline

3 жыл бұрын

Wow, thanks! Glad you like our stuff.

@BPLeroyLotusEvora

3 жыл бұрын

@@PhotographyOnline should have been crystal clear! When spell checkers go 😑

Enjoyed the episode again, and was moved by the family portrait feature. It inspired me to go out into the garden and take my wife's portrait with her gardening tools. I think I should take more pictures of the day to day happenings in our house and family.

@PhotographyOnline

3 жыл бұрын

That’s great to hear we’ve inspired you Ariaan. Thanks for your continued support

As a Newbie to photography, and a KZread junkie, this was probably THE BEST explanation of composition (as it relates to f-stop and focal length) that I've seen. Thank you for this! Well done!

@PhotographyOnline

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching John. Great to hear it was useful. More to come!

Really clear presentation. Practical, useful content. This is one of the best photography sites I have come across...aimed at enthusiasts, but doesn't require much prior photography knowledge. Top class!

@PhotographyOnline

2 жыл бұрын

Cheers Declan. That’s our goal, so good to hear we are achieving it

The Show of all Shows 👌👌 eagerly waiting guyz 💛💛

@PhotographyOnline

3 жыл бұрын

Cheers Marc. Not too long to go!

I am quite a suprise of the focal length so called "myth" in this video bit well.. you proved it precisely. Well done. I love this video 👍👏

@PhotographyOnline

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching

I don’t think we need take more family portraits, as we do a lot on our mobile phones. The problem is that they stay on the phone, are typically not printed and put into an physical album. I have started instax printing a lot of images from my phone, that is one way to have a physical memory.

loved the explanation of focal length and of course thr rest was ace as well

@PhotographyOnline

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching Mik

This is an amazing video, great channel

Hello from Florida,USA. I really enjoy your channel. I visited Scotland during the Queen’s silver anniversary. Beautiful country

Im not crying! YOUR crying! Such a charming little girl looking at her grandmother. My wife is the youngest of nine. I have 3 good spontaneous portraits of her siblings caught with natural light so far. Its a project for me. Fantastic primer too!

@PhotographyOnline

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching Clint. All the best with the portraits

I follow a lot of photography channels, but your demo and explanation on focal length and distance was a real penny-now-drops for me. Thank you!

@PhotographyOnline

3 жыл бұрын

Glad it was useful. More to come!

Good stuff again! I think a lot of folks benefited from the lens/f-stop segment. The parabolic dish thing is brilliant! Harry's backyard view is amazing. I too have a gimbal for either the tripod or my monopod, which really helps a lot. As I travel by car nowadays, I have 3 bags, a Nikon bag, an Olympus bag, and a film camera bag, when I travel, I take it all!! Avery interesting and engaging show again! Cheers!

@PhotographyOnline

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks as always Randy.

Thanks for another great vlog. Lots of interesting information, and a couple of touching moments. As for bags, Backlight 26L was the choice I made. Fits my Canon R5 with 24-105 attached, a 70-200 f2.8, 16-35 f4, filter kit, Canon flash and other accessories needed. All up 8kg in weight. Tripod not included. Thanks again for sharing. Stay safe 😷🇦🇺

@PhotographyOnline

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching John

Thanks. Really enjoyed the lens compression explanation!

@PhotographyOnline

3 жыл бұрын

Glad it was helpful Ian.

Really great show yet again. Tell Harry if he wants to really look 'cool' with his shoulder bag to get a Billingham - may be a red one!

@PhotographyOnline

3 жыл бұрын

Harry would only be interested if it was pink!

just stumbled across this channel. i like the content and the way it was presented. subscribed.

@PhotographyOnline

3 жыл бұрын

Welcome on board David. All the best

Another amazing show. Congrats.

@PhotographyOnline

3 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it

Brilliant, every day is school day . Without doubt the best photography show around 👍

@PhotographyOnline

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks very much Ian. We appreciate your continued support.

I totally enjoyed the explanation of F-stop and focal length. I have never heard it explained so clearly and accurately. As the presenter said, "It is what it is..." Thanks, I have finally understood.

@PhotographyOnline

3 жыл бұрын

Great to hear it was useful to you. Thanks for watching.

I enjoyed this one a lot. Thanks for all your hard work. Having the cute girl help you explain focal length was very entertaining :)

@PhotographyOnline

3 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

Great show again, interesting and informative. My domke messenger bag and Olympus pen is enough for me. The bigger the bag the more stuff you end up lugging around.

@PhotographyOnline

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for sharing!

Great show - as always - thank you so much :-)

@PhotographyOnline

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching Tom

Thanks for the useful diy Harry. I'd like to learn more about other tipps and tricks to save money in my pocket...

@PhotographyOnline

3 жыл бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

I thought I knew a lot until the focal length compression was explain with actual examples. Good and informative video, keep up the good work. As for bags, I have tried a lot and IMO the bags that works best is the bag you ate most comfortable with. Which may not be a camera bag ! So I purchased a padded insert for camera body and lenses for a rucksack I enjoy wearing or I can use another bag like holdall if I am say in a hall or studio and not outside.

@PhotographyOnline

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for taking the time to watch and comment Tyson. All the best.

Really well presented and clear, I wonder if people appreciate the effort and time to edit such a video.

@PhotographyOnline

3 жыл бұрын

Hi Andy. Thanks for watching and for taking the time to comment. Some people (like you) do appreciate the time and effort we put in, while others do not. Glad to see you are in the right group!

Lowepro Whistler BP 450 Backpack for Camera - Grey Recommended

Great show. My current bag(s) are the Mindshift 13 sling which is my travel bag. I can carry a large pack that I check at the airport and have the sling in front. Also for urban environments I like the sling. My 'taking the big lens' is the Mindshift 15. It is a great pack that for the necessities of wildlife photography. And finally if I am taking everything I grab my Gitzo Adventury 30.

@PhotographyOnline

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the info Peter

Another great show. Thank you 💗

@PhotographyOnline

3 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it

I use a small messenger bag. Micro four thirds makes this easy.

Think Tank fan here. Mostly Retrospective or Vision, but I have Backlight for hiking. Also other messenger styles, plus a sling. Next is an Airport Advantage XT, I think. Excellent demonstration of "compression".

@PhotographyOnline

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks Gary.

Very elegant explanation of perspective by Marcus. But I thought he was going to take the opportunity to dispel that other phrase: "zoom with your feet". That really gets my goat!

hello ruth and team thank you so much for the interesting show and meeting your families past and present i hope you are all staying safe and well thank you from trev in sussex

@PhotographyOnline

3 жыл бұрын

Cheers Trev

I love this mythbusting of compressing backgrounds.

@PhotographyOnline

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks Spiders. Glad it was helpful

Thank you for a great, informative show.

@PhotographyOnline

3 жыл бұрын

You’re welcome Dr O

Thank you for explaining the focal-length physics. It's a matter of what people can use easiest, and the idea of "compression" is easy to say but is definitely a misnomer. Same thing for folks saying "my tyres have 25 pounds of air" when they are describing 25 lbs/in2 pressure in the tyres.

@PhotographyOnline

3 жыл бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

Hi guys: Sorry for being late in responding to this great video. When it comes to camera bags, I have a closet full of different types. My primary bag is the LowePro - Pro Tactic 450AW. I also have a MindShift sling bag for trekking where I don't need to carry much equipment. Cheers, Keith

@PhotographyOnline

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks as always Keith

Awesome content, as always.

@PhotographyOnline

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching again

Great show guys..

@PhotographyOnline

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching again Craig.

Well done. An important lesson. And, if you went to old school photography school - vocational/applied BSc - then these myths had been busted in there. There's one thing you might have missed in there, when being taught lenses, that you certainly got taught in art school, if you took the class in "perspective drawing" - the "square law". This square law totally "explains" the distance and perspective phenomenon and once we understand it, its 'inverse' derivative is immediately obvious. If at 'distance' 1, you see an 'area' of 1 x 1, then at distance 2, you see 2 x 2, at distance 3 see 3 x 3 - notice how the area that you see goes from 1 to 4 to 9 and this is where we find the square law. So the 'area' we see, changes with the 'square' of the 'distance'. If we create a table in our spreadsheet program: distance, area, and 'area j/area i' where j=i+1 - simply put, we run a series of integers "distance" in column 1, then square that in column 2, and next in column 3 divide the area of the present row by the area of the previous row, then we see the compression in the third row. If you plot these three columns into a line plot for distances 1 .. 6, then you nicely see the exponential area increase of 'area' but the change in the rate of area change in column three and this illustrates the difference between compression in the foreground and the background. With this understanding - columns 2 and 3 - we have an easy moment in flash photography to understand that a (flash) light that needs to illuminate our subject, loses its intensity more quickly in the foreground, than in the background. The inverse square law adds a fourth column to the table, where the intensity of light relates to the area that is lit. If at distance 1, our lamp has an intensity of 1, then at distance 2, it has an intensity of 1/4 - 1 divided by the corresponding area. So we get intensity 1 at distance 1 for area 1, intensity 1/4 for distance 2 and intensity 1/9 for distance 3, etc. If we put that in the fourth column and generate the line graph again, the inverse square law is visualized as well. And we have learnt how, for instance, we can easily turn a white cyc into a very dark, almost black or black even, grey one in our studio shots.

@PhotographyOnline

3 жыл бұрын

Hi JP. Thanks for your detailed comment. We have already covered the Inverse Square Law (the most useful law for any photographer to learn as it can be applied to so many elements of photography) in our Jan part 2 show. If you go to 7:00 into that programme you will see it. Obviously we don’t go into too much detail as we need to keep the audience attention but hopefully you will see that we didn’t miss this important info. Thanks for watching and for taking the time to comment.

Fantastic vedio very helpful I really really like it .. thank you please do more video like this

@PhotographyOnline

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you, we will.

Fantastic show. Been a wee late to jump on the bandwagon but managed to catch up on most of the previous episodes and current now. I changed my itinerary from going to Inverness and instead visited Skye a couple of weeks ago and managed to get some decent shots. The chaps are fairly fit to go up and down the mountains, but not me - made do with some strenuous climbs and resorted to a plenty Of wayside shots. Well done for the show - clearly something of this sort was a missing void on KZread from this neck of the woods - clearly competing with B&H Event Space

@PhotographyOnline

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching.

Farout, dude, master my.... our master , You know how hard it is to teach that to my college students . Spot on bro. Long live film📷 Your the man . 🦇

@PhotographyOnline

3 жыл бұрын

Glad to help

Thanks for the very good focal lengths explaination, I finally understand it now ! Now to get my cat to strike a pose !

@PhotographyOnline

3 жыл бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

Thank you! You are the best!

@PhotographyOnline

3 жыл бұрын

You are the best for watching!

wonderful show. learn something every show

@PhotographyOnline

3 жыл бұрын

Great to hear Mark. Thanks for watching.

awesome contents. thank you guys

@PhotographyOnline

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching!

Great show, been a keen watcher since episode 1. However some of the team (let's call them Barry and Barcus) tend to drone on about something called 'The Scottish Weather'. There is no such thing! If you choose to live in a mountainous area like Skye or Wester Ross (or even the English Pond District) you can expect to get wet regularly. If you live in the East, for example Nairn, St Andrews or Dunbar, it's about as dry and sunny as Kent.

Fantastic Video

Damn all the other fancy product pushers, your explanation of lenses will keep the dinosaurs busy dissecting their words. The family photos explanation is an emotional subject. My grandfather gifted a small photo to my mom on her first childbirth , which was she 2 months old. I still remember her wet eyes explaining it when I became interested in photography as a youngster. This generation have a delete button, we didn't.

Thanks for a great show. What Marcus failed to mention about focal length is that, since he was doubling his distance to the foreground subject and not the background subject, the background subject was being magnified more than the foreground subject, creating the illusion that the background subject was coming closer too the foreground subject.

@PhotographyOnline

3 жыл бұрын

David. There was no “illusion”! This was the purpose of the exercise - to show that the lens simply captures what the eye sees, which is a change in perspective as you adjust your distance. There is no illusion.

Another great show. We can't become photography online supporters here in Guernsey (it's a google thing) so I decided to buy a t-shirt to help support this channel.

@PhotographyOnline

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks very much Martin. Who knew Guernsey was a communist state?!

@martinsarre

3 жыл бұрын

@@PhotographyOnline 😂🇬🇬,not far wrong there

This is epic! Great demonstration on focal length

@PhotographyOnline

3 жыл бұрын

Glad you liked it!

@extrajay4868

Жыл бұрын

Hey Flatzoid, when are you going to demonstrate what you claim, using a fixed position camera on a tripod?

@deleted9006

Жыл бұрын

@FlatzoidsPerspective Have you been able to capture that magnification effect yet with set camera position?

We were in Armadale many years ago while on our Honeymoon, we did not know there was a castle to visit so we will have to make a point of going there. Great Video and can we have more of the young lady from Scotland please! 😀👍🇨🇦

@PhotographyOnline

3 жыл бұрын

Hi Alan. We can highly recommend visiting Armadale Castle next time you are on Skye. If the “young lady” you refer to is Xiana the little girl (as opposed to Ruth - who is also a young lady!), the she appears in many of our shows including the previous one. Thanks for watching.

Hi Ruth and team fantastic show big thanks to all involved just wondering if architecture photography is on the agenda for any upcoming shows, very best wishes.

@PhotographyOnline

3 жыл бұрын

We will be doing some architecture on upcoming shows but not sure exactly when yet. We touched on it in the last show, but only very briefly. Thanks for your support Mark.