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V-o-c-a-b-u-l-a-r-y archive—in photography, to preserve a frame—in photography, the technique wide angle lens—ideal for fitting a Spotlight production or performance by capturing of drawing focus to the subject by using large area into the image’s frame, this images. elements within a scene as a frame. For type of lens allows more of the scene to —an ultra-wide-angle lens example, you might place your subject be included, which is especially useful in A photographer in that can take in a full 180-degree radius so they’re surrounded by a window, a the performing arts when trying to the performing arts is around it. Fisheye lenses are so named tunnel, or natural elements like leafy capture the technical elements of the branches. production, like the sets, lighting, and responsible for taking because they distort an image’s field of view, making even a room in a house lens—made up of a series of glass costumes. images of a production or look like a bubble. plates that are convex (curved outward) zoom lens—a series of lenses that performance. They are —usually represented in or concave (curved inward), a lens is a allow different focal lengths from a single tool used to bring light to a fixed focal lens, making them more flexible but not tasked with capturing the millimeters (mm), it is the basic description of a photographic lens. The point. as fast as a standard lens. In the energy, movement, and longer the focal length, the narrower the standard lens—also known as a performing arts, zoom lenses are charisma of performers and the higher the “,” a standard lens produces particularly useful when trying to move magnification. The shorter the focal an image that roughly matches what the between standard and close-up images. while they are in the act of length, the wider the angle of view and human eye sees, and which looks natural performing. the lower the magnification. to the viewer.

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