How Lens Compression Works | Get better photos when you understand this!

Hey Mike .. very nice tutorial. Thanks for sharing the knowledge.

Great Vid, sorry for the thumbs down, I don't want YT's algorithm to inundate me with like vids.

compression at 50mm at the crop is equal to compression at 75mm at a full frame, if you shoot from one place?

Thank you very much for this comprehensible explanation, I'm glad that I found it.

Thanks bro, I kept hearing this in different videos and I had no freaking clue what they were talking about. Well done.

Best explanation tonight 👏 I’m here bcz someone posted a picture of the blood moon the other day and it was huge like wow type of moon and the person said it wasn’t photoshopped so curious as I am I wanted to see if the moon was actually that big in Australia then someone comment on a video that is a cam technique now it makes more sense thank you!! 🤗

Thank you for the great vid but I still don't get it!

Amazing amazing video!

What a brilliant and simple explanation. Subscribed immediately. Thank you.

Great explanation. I knew what it was, but had a hard time describing it to others. You filled in some gaps and I will be trying it out.

Incredible explanation

Great explanation as usual.

Excellent explanation, thank you!

This was a great video, you did an awesome job at explaining everything! Thank you!!

Thanks for this, I am hoping to get an image of the sun looking huge, so this tutorial really helped in increasing my understanding 💗

Could never wrap my head around this before. Thanks for the great explanation!

very well explained thanks for posting

Thanks for this video. Quite useful!

Great video! I was so confused! Was…

Love this tutorial, Mike!!! This shows that zooming with your feet is not the same as zooming with a lens …..

This was incredibly useful. Thank you Mike.

Thank you so much. I finaly can put a name on this effect and know how to use it

almosrt everywhere you were filming in this vedio was in Bangkok I can see haha.... I am Thai

I've seen NAT GEO photographers do this. And their images stand out. I will start implementing this.

Hands down the best best explanation on YT. Thank you sooo much.❤️

Very skilled explanation and examples of lens compression. It's an abstract idea but you really made it clear. Thank you so much?

This was ground breaking for me. Been shooting for years but what I had in mind was Longer focal length = compression.
So often I said "oh I need the tele for that awesome compression"

But the real thing is perspective. You could get the same compression by using something likw a 30mm and crop in all the way until it matches like a 200mm, of course that inly works theoretically cause youd normally wouldn't have enough megapixel, but it still changes the way I'll shoot in the future. For example you'd could go with a wuper high megapixel camera and crop in from an 85 instead of bringing that 70-200. I always was under the impression, that 200 would have a different "compression"

Thank you

Is lens compression the same as cropping using an editing software?

I love you ❤❤❤. U made the topic crystal clear ❤❤

Great video, I didn’t know about this.

Great video

The easiest way I've found to explain compression is: "When you stand further back, you need to "crop/zoom" the entire scene for the object to remain the same size. This makes a smaller part of the background fill the frame, making it look bigger and closer."

Brilliantly explained!

First came across this when the media were exposed for using lens compression to make headlines if people cheek by jowel at beaches during relaxed covid rules. Except someone had been flying their drone that day and you could see they were no closer than 50 feet apart. The media made it look like a chinese underground train.

Great video Mike. Very clear about a concept not always evident

Thank you for this accessible tutorial

Absolutely brilliant video

Thank you

the backgroung is not compressed, you are just closer to the background. Zero compression. just your imagination.

Awesome video and explanation mike! a have a question, if you are shooting a subject at 70mm, would the image look identical using 24-70mm and a 70-200mm? based on your video, i'm assuming yes as the distance remains the same as you arent changing the focal length nor distance to subject.

Best simple explaination

Absolutely wonderful video.Each and every sentance carries a part of the concept.All that remains is practice-practice and practice.The concept of lens and together with practice will clarify everything.Tons of thanks and May God Bless you.

Thank you / needed to understand compression better

thanks for sharing this info! Great to know! Now a question, is this possible to achieve with iPhone or is the sensor just too small?

This is the video I have been looking for!!!! THANK YOU!