Photography Foundations: Specialty Lenses

From ultra-wide angle to ultra-telephoto to macro, tilt-shift and more, discover the creative options that specialized lenses and attachments provide.

Welcome

• Welcome
• Roadmap of the course

1. Understanding Specialty Lenses

• Words about focal length
• Understanding camera position

2. Working with Lens Attachments

• What filters are for
• Shopping for filters
• Understanding neutral density filters
• Applying neutral density filters
• Polarizing filters
• Some shooting tips for working with a polarizing filter
• Using infrared filters
• Processing the infrared image
• Handling stuck filters

3. Working with Wide Angle

• Working with ultra-wide lenses
• Using a wide-angle lens
• Understanding fisheye lenses
• Working with fisheye lenses
• Understanding fisheye exposure
• Taking fisheye further
• Processing fisheye and wide-angle images
• Correcting tone in fisheye images

4. Shooting Super Telephoto

• Understanding super telephoto
• Shooting distant subjects
• Compressing the sense of depth
• Working with shallow depth of field
• Working with teleconverters
• Editing telephoto images

5. Understanding Macro

• Understanding macro basics
• Shooting close
• Shooting macro
• Working with a point-and-shoot for macro
• Using a two-lens strategy

6. Using Tilt-Shift Lenses

• Understanding tilt shift
• Correcting perspective
• Creating the toy effect
• Deepening depth of field

7. Exploring Specialized Lenses

• Working with specialty lenses
• Using the Lensbaby
• Working with the Lensbaby Macro attachment
• Shooting with a Holga attachment
• Using an alternative mount lens
• Using super-fast lenses
• Correcting Lensbaby images

8. Creating Lens Effects Digitally

• Correcting perspective
• Creating the toy effect
• Getting the lo-fi Holga look
• Reproducing the effect of a Lensbaby
• Cropping and enlarging images

Conclusion

• Choosing whether to borrow or buy
• Goodbye