On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 7:54 AM, Anthony Farr <[email protected]> wrote: > The overall impression I get from the "Panasonic G1 ... example photo @ ISO > 1000" discussion is that many photographers aspire to wider and yet wider > fields of view. > > But lately I've observed that my best photographs mostly have normal to > narrow fields of view. As tempting as it is to put on a wide lens and > capture the whole scene, I've been striving to exercise some self discipline > and choose the longest focal length that works. Sometimes I even try to use > a longer lens than is comfortable, and select that small part of the scene > that tells the story. > > A tele shot seems to have a cleanness and tightness that distils and > concentrates a story. Wide shots can often capture objects unrelated to the > subject that will dilute a story(expansive landscapes excepted). > > In a nutshell - I tend to desire wide-angle lenses, but I'm better off using > normal or long lenses. > > Regards, Anthony >
I'm exactly the opposite. I used to desire longer lenses until I realized that almost all of my shots were between a slightly longer than normal perspective and a wide perspective. Roughly a 20-85mm range on 35mm with the 35-58 range being the most used and 20 being used more than 85. I've got ultra-wide through super-tele lenses (10-500mm on DX crop, 17-500mm on 35mm) and I use the ultra-wides at their widest more than all of the lenses longer than 90mm combined (And my 90 is a macro) -- M. Adam Maas http://www.mawz.ca Explorations of the City Around Us. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
