From the course: Photography Foundations: Specialty Lenses

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From the course: Photography Foundations: Specialty Lenses

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- There are a lot of decisions that go into the making of a photograph, how to compose, how to expose, how to process the final result, but one of the most critical decisions that you'll face at any scene is lens choice. Your lens choice will impact where you position your camera, what you can include in your composition, and your lens choice will heavily impact your exposure options. Lens choice can also dramatically alter the spatial relationships of different objects within your scene. In this course, we're going to look at a number of specialty lenses, as well as some lens attachments that can modify how your regular lenses work. In general, these specialty lenses fall into two categories, lenses designed for a very specific shooting task, and lenses that simply have characteristics that are very different from the regular types of lenses that you might normally use. With lenses like these, you can see the world in a very different way. Specialty lenses can give you a new take on old subject matter. They can add energy to otherwise static scenes or add atmosphere to an image. Most importantly, those specialty lenses often open up new subject matter, things that wouldn't be interesting when shot with more traditional lenses or sometimes fascinating when you shoot them with a specialty lens. With the lenses we're going to look at here, you're not only getting new ways to shoot familiar objects, you'll likely find new subjects that you've never shot before. Now, not all of these lenses will appeal to everyone, but they are all worth considering. So in addition to showing you what they can do, I'm going to also offer lots of specific tips on how to get the best results with each of these lenses. By the end of this course, you'll have a much better idea of how specialty lenses can give you new shooting options, and how they can help you solve your photographic decisions in new ways.

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