06-28-2016, 01:48 PM
@JyonnyNovice: Thanks for stopping by again man! Yeah what you say about the camera lens stuff is starting to make sense to me now - close up shots have different perspective to far away shots. Gestures, yeah definitely - I was just thinking the other day that I'd neglected my gestures and needed to get back to them - thanks for the nudge :).
@OtherMuzz: Yep - you only get out what you put in - so I figured I might as well put my own effort into understanding this stuff.
OK I've done another experiment with perspectival distortion tonight in Blender.
I modeled a quick mannequin and then took two camera shots of him. One at 2m and another a 6m. Then I analysed the amount of perspectival distortion that was happening. The 6m shot was definitely less distorted and looked a bit better to me.
My reading on this matter suggests that most portrait photographers use distances of between 2m and 6m. So I think maybe if I get used to drawing figures at 4m away the perspectival distortion might look most natural.
@OtherMuzz: Yep - you only get out what you put in - so I figured I might as well put my own effort into understanding this stuff.
OK I've done another experiment with perspectival distortion tonight in Blender.
I modeled a quick mannequin and then took two camera shots of him. One at 2m and another a 6m. Then I analysed the amount of perspectival distortion that was happening. The 6m shot was definitely less distorted and looked a bit better to me.
My reading on this matter suggests that most portrait photographers use distances of between 2m and 6m. So I think maybe if I get used to drawing figures at 4m away the perspectival distortion might look most natural.
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