Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/07/06
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I was as George Bush (elder) Park yesterday and saw the incredible soft light falling on my wife and two Australian Cattle Dogs. I was shocked, but it was morning and a storm was moving in. I was very glad that I had my 50mm lens with me, because that's the best lens for shooting large subjects without the unnecessary melodrama of a wide angle lens. The resulting photo was a delicate mix of colors and the perspective of my dogs and the coming storm. P.S. a note from Sergeant Phil: I shot most of my pictures, even over a twenty-year period as a professional, with a 35mm lens. Yes, the angle of view does tend to match the observable field of the human eye minus peripheral vision. But there is still an overly dramatic near-far relationship present that is (I think) inappropriate for most pictures. I learned after many years that the last thing an amateur photographer (and a lot of pros) will do is to approach a subject, stand flat footed and take a straightforward picture of it before all the rest of the fancy moves. Most commercial photography is learning to do just that.