topic Re: Eos RebelT6 1300D lense in EF & RF Lenses

Eos RebelT6 1300D lense

lostarts — Mon, 15 Feb 2021 18:59:48 GMT

which lense is appropriate for subject to fill picture for printing?

EOS RebelT6 1300D lense

lostarts — Mon, 15 Feb 2021 19:09:09 GMT

Which lense is best to have "person" shot, fill the entire screen for printing?

I have EFS 18-55mm and 75-300mm. Neither will do that.

Re: Eos RebelT6 1300D lense

kvbarkley — Mon, 15 Feb 2021 19:12:13 GMT

Whichever one works.

For portraits of faces 50mm is recommended for crop frame cameras like your T6.

Other wise, it depends on how big the subject is, and how far away you are.

I used my 60mm macro for snowflakes:

https://community.usa.canon.com/t5/Share-Your-Photos/Snowflakes/m-p/334446#M2525

but they were too small to fill the frame.

Re: EOS RebelT6 1300D lense

rs-eos — Mon, 15 Feb 2021 19:24:23 GMT

Please only one thread per issue. Other thread for this here.

Re: Eos RebelT6 1300D lense

rs-eos — Mon, 15 Feb 2021 19:28:01 GMT

In the other thread you started (now linked to this one), you state that you have both an 18-55 and 75-300 but nothing works.

Can you explain what specifically you are trying? Can you show an example?

While you don't have 20mm worth of focal lengths, that's not going to prohibit you from taking head shots, head/shoulder, half-body, three-quarter or full body images.

Re: EOS RebelT6 1300D lense

kvbarkley — Mon, 15 Feb 2021 19:30:37 GMT

Show us some examples.

Re: Eos RebelT6 1300D lense

lostarts — Mon, 15 Feb 2021 20:05:58 GMT

Full body shots. Unfortunately, I have no examples. I want to print an image of a person

without "shrinking" the body's width to a "stick" figure. I cannot figure out how to use

Photoshop to do that.

Thx

Re: Eos RebelT6 1300D lense

rs-eos — Mon, 15 Feb 2021 20:26:38 GMT

Sorry, I'm not following at all. So this isn't a "figure out what lens to use" issue, it's what to do in Photoshop?

You'll really need to provide a screenshot at least showing what the issue is.

Re: Eos RebelT6 1300D lense

kvbarkley — Mon, 15 Feb 2021 20:33:41 GMT

Two suggestions:

Crop in Photoshop.

Turn the camera sideways.

so instead of this aspect:

You get this one:

Re: Eos RebelT6 1300D lense

lostarts — Mon, 15 Feb 2021 20:32:58 GMT

not for photoshop. I thought there might be a lense that would allow a photo of a figure

to fill the screen with as little background as possible...I guess it may be a "width" issue,

as the height stays constant...what is a good lense to allow me to get a close-up without

losing the entire body?

Re: Eos RebelT6 1300D lense

rs-eos — Mon, 15 Feb 2021 20:52:43 GMT

There isn't any. I believe what you're speaking to is that a human is generally not in a 2:3 aspect ratio. And thus when shooting an image in portrait orientation, head at the top, feet at bottom, you have negative space on the left/right. Is that what you're speaking to?

For printing, it will depend upon the aspect ratio of the paper. Unless it too will be in a 2:3 aspect ratio, you'll have to crop.

Same for any other aspect ratio you capture in; some cropping may be needed.

If you want to absolutely maximize the resolution (if you're making seriouslly large prints), you can always do panoramas (e.g. take 3 or perhaps 5 landscape-oriented shots of the person). This requires special skills and/or dedicated pano equipment and tripods to pull off. And then you're subject will have to be very still the whole time.

Re: Eos RebelT6 1300D lense

lostarts — Mon, 15 Feb 2021 21:02:46 GMT

Thank you, rs-eos. I appreciate your response. This is a new camera for me. Maybe the

old one was "simplier" and "easier"...too bad I don't have. It was a simple "point and shoot"

in the simplest way(s).

Again, Thank you

Re: Eos RebelT6 1300D lense

kvbarkley — Mon, 15 Feb 2021 21:05:18 GMT

Have you tried turning the camera sideways?

You can also change the aspect ratio of the image and turn the camera on its side:

Also, note that your printer paper also has a fixed aspect ratio you might be fighting. Don't be afraid to use your scissors!

Re: Eos RebelT6 1300D lense

lostarts — Mon, 15 Feb 2021 21:16:59 GMT

I don't understand "aspects" (ratio)

Re: Eos RebelT6 1300D lense

rs-eos — Mon, 15 Feb 2021 21:34:33 GMT

I you want to capture images and do printing, you'll need to understand aspect ratio.

Its a ratio between the width and height of an image. For 1:1, the image would be square. Same width as height. For 2:1, it would be twice as wide as it is tall. kvbarkley's post above shows where to go into the settings.

I rarely will print my images. But when doing so, I typically do an 8 by 10 or 16 by 20. These are 4:5 ratios which are a bit more square than 3:2 which is the default what you're camera would capture.

So one has to be careful to not fill the entire frame in that 3:2 aspect ratio and expect everything to fit in that 8 by 10 (4:5). Example here:

The original image (gray and black squares) represent a 3:2 aspect-ratio image. But when wanting to out to a 10 x 8 (or 20 x 16) which is a 5:4 aspect ratio, you'd need to crop. So when framing stuff for printing to this size, I just remember to not include important stuff that would get cropped out.

Re: EOS RebelT6 1300D lense

ebiggs1 — Tue, 16 Feb 2021 14:32:02 GMT

"Which lense is best to have "person" shot, fill the entire screen for printing?

I have EFS 18-55mm and 75-300mm. Neither will do that."

Yes, they will. Either will do it? The problem is how you use them and how you edit the photos. There is no such thing as a lens that will produce a great picture without input from you.