Help with perspective/framing

[jjd228]

I know this shot was taken with a 24-70mm lens. I'm trying to understand how the zoomed, almost distorted/lengthened effect was achieved. So if you had to make your best guess:

How far away was the photographer from the model?
What focal length was used?

It was suggested that he was all the way wide at 24mm, but close to the model. Then the crop handled the rest.

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[Jerry_]

Guess the photographer was about 60cm from front shoe - and yes defintely wide open (24mm).

Likely f11 or above aperture

 

[pgriz]

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As for the image itself, this is a pretty classic use of a ultra-wide-angle to create both distortion and separation of foreground and background. The UWA have ridiculously deep DOF, and when using the higher aperture numbers (f/8 and up), everything from a foot or so away, to infinity is in focus. Here, it is used to good effect.

 

[The_Traveler]

Guess the photographer was about 60cm from front shoe - and yes definitely wide open (24mm).

Likely f11 or above aperture

Typically wide open refers only to aperture.
It has no meaning when applied to focal length.
Wide open for this lens would be f2.8 at any focal length.

 

[Braineack]

her bottom must have lots of traction.

 

[photoguy99]

Trigonometry.

Feet are roughly the same length as heads. The one in the foreground is angled, so let's say visually 2/3 or 1/2 the height of her head. Yet it appears twice as big.

This places us something like 3x to 4x as far from her face as her foot. I'm guessing four feet from foot to face. So we're about one to two feet from that near foot.

With a full frame camera this is pretty wide but not necessarily all the way to 24mm. Field of view is definitely wide, though. 30mm? 24mm? Sure.

This is all back of the envelope. Maybe the model has huge feet. If you have a camera with a self timer it should not take you more than a few minutes of hacking around to get a strong sense of how this was shot.

 

[KmH]

Trigonometry.

A far to common response would be something like:
NO! NO! ......... OMG! THAT'S MATH ! ! ! ! !

MATH IS - NOT COOL. WHY DO I NEED TO KNOW HOW TO DO MATH?

 

[mcap1972]

Now you know math is useful even in photography