1 The Director of Photography – an overview

Lenses and perspective 175
Figure 19.14 A medium
telephoto lens
Figure 19.15 A long
telephoto lens
much an objective or observational shot, very definitely not a subjective
one.
Now let us consider what might happen if we take the camera still
further away and put on a still longer focal length lens. Figure 19.15 is
just this and now, simply by changing camera position and focal length
of the lens, we are truly emotionally observational in our relationship
with the house and its occupants. This is observational in the extreme,
almost a surveillance shot.