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Wide-angle shootout

Wide-angle shootout

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Wide-angle shootout

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- Hey there, I'm Robbie Carman. - And i'm Rich Harrington. - And Rich this week we are at Flight Trampoline to take a look at wide angle lenses. And of course wide angle lenses are something that are often discussed in film making because they have some good uses but they also have some technical uses as well. - Yeah, there's a lot of things we're gonna explore today. We're working with some athletes, they're gonna be flying through the air. So obviously we wanna capture that. And it's not exactly predictable. Plus we're in a really big environment here. So we wanna get a sense of perspective of just how big this location is, we're trying to show it off. This is not an environment where tight angles really work. - Yeah and you mentioned, you know, sort of the idea of sort of composition of a shot and that's traditionally what wide angle lenses have been used for, to sort of set an establishing shot in a scene, or to show the grandeur of an environment. But they also have technical…

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