Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/08/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]What I call a serious photographer, someone who has thoughts and feelings about, and respect for their subject, and has something to communicate visually in that regard, will choose the focal length of the lens appropriately. I believe that Mark R chose a medium long lens for a very powerful street photo recently (the silhouetted figures in front of the fountain). It worked very well for the subject and, I believe, his intentions. If a street photographer worked with a long lens, and with the same respect and depth of knowledge for his subject as Doug Herr shows for his critters, I imagine we'd see equally strong work. Doug has provided URL's to those who use wide or normal lenses where he uses long lenses. It's not about the focal length. It's about the intentions, skill and depth of thought and feeling which the photographer brings to the game. All the rules: wide for street and architecture medium long for portrait long for wild life, stage and sports etc. have been and will continue to be broken by the serious photographer who's seriously searching for their own voice. IMO YMMV Regards, George Lottermoser george at imagist.com http://www.imagist.com http://www.imagist.com/blog http://www.linkedin.com/in/imagist On Aug 30, 2010, at 1:01 PM, Chris Saganich wrote: > If human beings showed-up for me the same way that wildlife shows-up for > me then a long lens it is. I like safety. Often we treat people we don't > know more like wildlife or the streets we are on as untamed and dangerous. > I never felt that HCB images portrayed people or places that way. The > people and the places seemed very natural and it is obvious that is how > they showed-up for him. Other street images seem like the photographer > was shooting wildlife in a dangerous place.