[Leica] An extraordinary collection of 40's Leica images

[scott at adrenaline.com (Scott McLoughlin)]

Just last night a photo-newbie buddy of mine was lamenting the poor 
compositions
of his photos, almost all taken with a zoom. After shooting a digi P&S 
for a year or
so, he also picked up a nice old used FE2 and a few Nikkor primes a few 
months ago.
My first counsel to him was to stick either his 50mm or 28mm on the 
camera and to
just "see that way" for some months.  I know this will help him, even if 
others ardently
disagree :-)

As for me, after buying and thumbing through a few photo volumes on 
composition,
I am currently seeking a book on classic composition in portrait and 
landscape painting.
The photo oriented books I have are nice, but in retrospect they are a 
fairly thin chant
"shape, line, texture, geometry, light..." and what not.

Scott

Feli wrote:

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>
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> I believe the switch to zoom lenses had a huge impact on the way shots 
> are composed.
> Shooting strictly with a 50 or 35, makes you see the world in a very 
> different way.
>
> The abandonment of the traditional canons of art in schools affected 
> composition.
>