Field of View

Imago

Simple question:

How to modify the FoV?

I need to obtain more dramatic shots...

mjc1016

Under the Camera settings you can change the 'lens' focal length...

 

First: Default 65mm   Second: 50mm

Third: 80mm  Fourth: 200mm

Now the other number that will affect it, in Camera settings is right above the Focal Length box.  It's the Frame width...that is pretty much the 'size' of the film/sensor.

https://photographylife.com/equivalent-focal-length-and-field-of-view

Imago

Sorry, clearly I have been too short... Expecially because I don't know what's the name of the effect...

I need a shot from over the shoulder of a man who's looking on an object on a table... I need to keep the object on the centre of the shot having in the same time the face of the man inside the image...

I saw it in many films and comics, but I can't find a reference...

mjc1016

I think I know what you are looking for, but I'm not 100%...could you find an example shot?

And if it is what I'm thinking...you will need to play around with the focal length...

 

Tobor

Given the film size remains the same, there are only three ways to change the size, field of view, and perspective of a scene:

1. Position the characters/objects, even if that position does not accurately reflect the staging of the scene;

2. Move the cameral

3. Zoom the lens in or out.

Create a new camera in D|S, if you haven't already, and it will provide the features for #2 and #3. (There's also a setting for changing what is in effect the film size. Leave it alone.) You control #1 by translating the characters/objects in the scene.

In movies, and in art, the positioning of characters and their gazes are often "cheated" so that even though characters may seem to be be looking toward a specific direction, they are really looking somewhere else. This is common in "over the shoulder shots," for example, to show the side of the face of the actor facing away from the camera (otherwise the actor facing away is seriously "upstaged," and actors understandably don't like that). That actor is actually looking off in a different direction, but it looks realistic enough.

The actors are also very often staged very close to one another, depending on the desired look of the frame. Art, comics or otherwise, use these same techniques to foreshorten and cheat various positions, in order to depict the scene with maximum dramatic effect.