A Guide to Using Different Shot Types in Midjourney, including Close-up, Medium-shot, Long-Shots
I have put together a rough guide to implementing different shot types in Midjourney and the resulting images.
I queried ChatGPT for appropriate f-stop and lens combinations for each type of shot so please don’t consider this guide as authorative.
The specific prompt I used is directly under each image (in the caption area). I typically specified an aspect ratio of 3:2 and set chaos to 0 to maintain similarity amongst the images.
Extreme long shot
For an extreme long shot, a wide aperture (low f-stop number) is typically used to increase the depth of field, allowing more of the image to be in focus. A wide-angle lens, such as a wide-angle zoom lens or a fish-eye lens, is often used to achieve an extreme long shot. An aperture between f/4 to f/8 with a wide-angle lens such as 14mm or a aperture between f/8 to f/11 with a 24mm lens could be used.
I found it necessary to put a background setting for the extreme long shot images.
Extreme long shot, f/11, 24mm lens, medieval warriors in vast open field — ar 3:2 — chaos 0
