How Focal Length Affects Your Portraits

Should you choose a 50mm, 85mm, or another lens entirely? In this video, Maria Perez explains how certain lenses distort or compress your image. She also discusses the most flattering focal length for your subject’s face, portraiture lenses, and much more.

• 0:00 - Introduction
• 0:55 - 24-70mm, 24-105mm
• 1:44 - 35mm
• 2:10 - 50mm "Nifty Fifty"
• 2:42 - 85mm
• 3:11 - Telephoto Zooms and Primes
• 4:06 - Supertelephoto

How do you decide which focal length to use? Let us know in the Comments section, below.