Confused about field of view?

poopinmymouth

I took some time off of 3d a while back to really get into photography. You can see my portrait work here: http://www.mr-chompers.com I also did a few photography tutorials. One of them was on choosing a focal length to purposefully change your field of view, and it's quite relevant to 3D work. I figured I would share it here.

http://mr-chompers.blogspot.com/2011/05/focallengths.html

This is all using photography terms, but can very easily be moved over to 3D packages.

bugo

Cool stuff! I like where you are going for. I just wish there was less men on the pictures :P

This is really helpful, thanks poop!

poopinmymouth

Plenty of women on the portrait page. :-)

bugo

YAY!
Do you mind telling me which camera do you use?

gsokol

pretty interesting read. Yea, I mess with FOV in-engine sometimes..but I never really thought about how it can benefit a composition like this. I'll be keeping this in my mind when taking screenshots of my environments from now on. Thanks for throwing this out there!

poopinmymouth

bugo wrote: »

YAY!
Do you mind telling me which camera do you use?

99% of the time I use a Fuji X100. It's a 1.5x crop APS-C sensor with a 23mm f/2 lens, which functions essentially like a 35mm lens.

When I do need to change up lenses, I have a 5D Mark I, which has a full frame sensor.