I stayed away from wide-angle lenses for a couple of reasons. First, the only lenses I have wider than 50mm are either cheap zooms or a cheap Vivitar 24mm. You can already see some distortion in some of the pictures using a 50mm, such as "Cell Tower" where the cell tower and the farm buildings visibly lean towards the middle of the photograph. I also favored telephoto for some situations where I wanted to compress things a bit, like "Signs" where I think I would have lost too much detail of the farm in the background for it to be very interesting. In a lot of cases I was simply trying to keep a photo "on topic" so to speak. If I had used a wide-angle for many of these pictures it would have looked like I was just doing a series on cell towers, they're everywhere.
Glenn
Bernd Scheffler wrote:
On my screen the pics look quite flat, personally I like more contrast. (No problem, can be repaired easily.) And sometimes I search for the ultmative kick; probably some of the pics would have got it by using a wideangle lens to render the scene more dramatic, for ex. in Cat ready to pounce or Thanksgiving Morning. Over all your pics remind me of my own work in the darkroom (long long ago) - I often tried to do winter pics and only the sunny ones were the way I could accept. But you have the potential IMO, get it on!
Best, Bernd
-----original message------- glenn murphy Tue, 28 Dec 2004 20:21:13 -0800
I put together a collection of 21 photos I took this fall for a photography class at the local community college. Unfortunately, I don't have a flatbed scanner set up right now to scan the prints I made in class, so scans of the negatives are the best I can do for now. Comments and constructive criticism are welcome.
http://home.comcast.net/~gutenberg14/vanishing-gallery-1.html <http://home.comcast.net/%7Egutenberg14/vanishing-gallery-1.html> Glenn
