Using a Telephoto Lens

Video Transcript

"I'm Joey Gunz, Glamor Photographer and you can check me out on line at www.joeygunz.com. I'm here on Expert Village today to talk a little bit about the telephoto lens. That's it, the long one! Size does matter when it comes to telephoto lenses. The one that I have affixed to my camera now is a 70 to 210 telephoto. Basically your telephoto lens is going to give you the ability to zoom in to really get up to close and personal with an object that is far away from your camera. Now I guess we'll take this moment right here in the studio to give you an affect of what a telephoto lens would do or what a zoom lens would do. So what I am going to do is I am going to take a long hike to get way way back there in the studio and this is a pretty big studio. It may not look like it but we are going to pretty much take this long hike to get way way back here in the back of the studio. So what we are going to do is we are going to show you a zoom affect. Now I may look a little far away but as we begin to zoom in, that lens is going to get really really up close, tight and personal to show you about a zoom affect Now keep in mind ladies and gentlemen, these up close shots like this are in my contract. We do get so many of these per episode. So you get the affect what a zoom lens will do. It takes action that is far away and it brings it way up close so I am going to go back to my position and all of that, a beautiful cross referencing light and all of that and we will wrap this thing up. Telephoto lens; what kind of applications do you have. Well, in glamor photography you can use a telephoto lens to get really tight on your subject with a wide aperture and you could throw your background out of focus. Just kind of bring that focus and attention on your model so it is not on the back drop. You can use telephoto lenses in sports photography and in places where you can't really get as close in action where you would like to get. Also just in general sight seeing, if you are touring and do something that is on the other side of the fence and you can't really get to it, you can shoot with a fence and really zoom in really tight but be careful, because when you zoom in really tight, it really becomes important that you hold that thing steady and still."