When photographing a model, why do photographers stay far away and use a huge lens rather than get closer?

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I realized that in behind the scenes videos, photographers outdoors seem very far away from their subject with a huge lens rather than being close up.

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Because those lenses and distances don’t distort features in the image.

Short focal length lenses at close distances tend to stretch things out. You never want to make a model’s nose look bigger than it is in real life. lol.

With longer focal length lenses photographers can still take relatively close up images and keep the natural proportions without distortion.

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