The Perfect Picture: frog's-eye view and the Roaring Twenties

Wednesday 19 October 2022, 23:32 by Elja Trum | 3,180 views | 0 comments

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Tonight saw the second episode of the new season of The Perfect Picture on RTL4. This week, the Dutch celebrities were allowed to capture Rotterdam from a frog's-eye view and make a self-portrait in Roaring Twenties style.

City life from a frog's-eye view

For the first assignment, the contestants went to Rotterdam. They had to capture city life, but from a frog's-eye view. So from as low a viewpoint as possible, looking up at the world.

News photographer Remko de Waal was the guest judge for this assignment and also gave the contestants some extra tips.

For this assignment, the Dutch celebrities were allowed to use the full-frame Canon EOS R6. As a wide perspective works well for a frog's-eye view, the full-frame camera is very suitable. You are not affected by a crop factor that effectively zooms in on your lenses.

They could choose between the Canon RF 24-105mm f/4L IS all-rounder or an RF 14-35 F/4 L IS wide-angle zoom.

Using the 14-35 makes sense for an assignment like this. But at 24mm, the 24-105mm is also a decent wide angle and more than enough for many situations.

I have a 12-24mm lens myself, which I actually never use in practice. Most photographers do not need that much of a wide angle every day. The 24-105mm is perfectly adequate in many cases.

A striking detail is that all the photographers chose the 14-35mm, except Filemon with his winning photo.

Winning photo by Filemon Wesselink
f/22, 1/80s, 100 ISO
Filemon won this first assignment with his indeed successful photo of a building and its reflection. Well spotted and neatly executed.

» View all photos from this shoot

Roaring Twenties self-portrait

For the second assignment, the candidates went to an old industrial estate in Apeldoorn. Here they had to make self-portraits in Roaring Twenties style.

Fine art photographer Gemmy Woud-Binnendijk helped the candidates with their assignment and was also the guest judge for this round.

The second assignment was also shot with the Canon EOS R6. This time, all of them were fitted with the RF 24-105mm f/4L. A logical choice for these self-portraits, because with this combination you can capture virtually every type of portrait very well.

Winning photo by Filemon Wesselink
f/5.6, 1/60s, 100 ISO
Filemon won the assignment again. It was especially remarkable that Filemon finished last last week. Things went much better this week!

The photo really is beautiful too! At most, I would have liked a little more light on the woman he is singing to, but in the self-portrait the focus is of course specifically on Filemon himself.

» View all photos from this shoot

Home assignment

You can also make your own perfect picture again this week with the home assignment. This week's assignment is:

'Get down flat on your stomach and take a photo from a frog's-eye view!'

» Submit your photo

Next week

Next week, the candidates will capture the silence in nature, and it will once again be time for the show's regular feature: the nude shoot.

What did you think of this week's episode?

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