[retro]

does anyone have a good link or tutorial or book recommendation about establishing different lenses ? i tried searches on various forums, but didnt turn up anything helpful.

thanks

[jfrancis]

http://www.digitalartform.com/archives/2004/12/telephoto_and_w.html

http://www.digitalartform.com/archives/2004/12/one_point_persp.html

[retro]

thanks for the links you posted. i was looking for a way of setting up a lens in a constructed perspective, but nevertheless that brought some light into the affair, esp. about the distortion happening.

thanks again

[Impaler]

jfrancis was explaining that there is no "distortion" happening. The concept itself is idiosyncratic.

So, following jfrancis' advice, you could theoretically

1) sketch a scene from "normal" perspective
2) crop down the scene to something tighter
3) re-draw that sketch to a bigger size

There are actual formulas and calculations if you want to be precise, but why bother?
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QED, sort of.

[retro]

i meant the distortion happening when you're close to sth. like the example with the nose, i alway thought that was an issue of the lens. i wasnt really sure what i meant when i posted the question, but i think it's the barrel/cushion distortion i am after. any hints on how to construct that?

[Affected]

this might interest you:
http://www.msri.org/people/members/sara/articles/siamescher.pdf

[Matthew]

a litt bit distortion there is yes ehmmmmmmuuuuu *Matthew sounding like yoda


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