1. Explain the purpose of choosing lenses
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Choosing Lenses
Learn to choose focal lengths for everyday, portrait, landscape and close-up work.
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What you will learn
2. Apply a practical method to choose focal lengths for everyday, portrait, landscape and close-up work
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3. Recognise the main technical, safety or professional risk
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4. Review the result and record one useful improvement
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Step-by-step practice
Step 1. Identify why choosing lenses matters to the photograph you want to make.
Step 2. Prepare the subject, location, equipment and any required permission.
Step 3. Practise how to choose focal lengths for everyday, portrait, landscape and close-up work.
Step 4. Review focus, exposure, light, composition, story and responsible practice.
Step 5. Complete this activity: Photograph one subject from the same position using three available focal lengths.
Safe and responsible practice: Switch equipment off before cleaning or changing parts, protect files and never obstruct others.
Practical activity
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Photograph one subject from the same position using three available focal lengths.
Good-practice checklist
Equipment is clean and secure
Cards, batteries and backup are ready
Complete the practical activity for choosing lenses
Record settings or decisions that produced the best result
Review the result on a second screen or as a print
Ask a qualified person when safety, privacy or legal consequences are significant
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