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[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It's a combo of the angle and lens focal length

[–] [email protected] -3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Lens focal length does not affect how you look in a photo. It’s a common misunderstanding of how photography works.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

That’s highly misleading.

The difference is not caused by the focal length but by the distance of the subject from the camera. The only difference between a longer and shorter lens is the field of view. To get the same framing with a 24mm and 200mm you need to be at different distances, but that doesn’t mean the focal length causes the different look. If you took a photo with the 24mm from the same distance as the 200mm and you cropped it so the framing is the same, they would look identical.

Here is a video demonstrating this