Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/03/04

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Subject: [Leica] A PAW shot I really like
From: hoppyman at bigpond.net.au (G Hopkinson)
Date: Sun Mar 4 20:16:19 2007
References: <200703050034.l250YuX8071954@server1.waverley.reid.org><BB155246C7F5784CAEC94DAD7D5E05FC09BF09@ccfcsbs.CCFC.local> <96E1DF2CE6A01F6D791A4F34@hindolveston.reid.org>

Brian, an alternate viewpoint. Your subject's strong face and expression and 
the wonderful lighting you have chosen make it a
striking and effective photo. Your M8 has cropped the 28's FoV to about that 
of a 35 and then you have cropped that to use the
centre to approximate the 75's FoV, as you say. Certainly though the 28's 
perspective is visible in her features. You can see in the
proportions of your subject's nose, for example. My thinking is that, where 
the perspective effect is critical to your picture, with
an M8 you still might best use a 75 (or a 90) for the classic head and 
shoulders, but need to step back for the same FoV. Just a
thought that may promote discussion. 
It's well known what the terrible consequences were for GeeBee when he 
posted a picture of Ethel taken with the 21mm.

Cheers
Hoppy 

-----Original Message-----
From: lug-bounces+hoppyman=bigpond.net.au@leica-users.org 
[mailto:lug-bounces+hoppyman=bigpond.net.au@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of
Brian Reid
Sent: Monday, 5 March 2007 13:24
To: Leica Users Group
Subject: Re: [Leica] A PAW shot I really like


> unbelievable that she could show up that great that close up with a 28mm 
> lens

I'm not an expert, but I use wide lenses as if they weren't so wide. I was 
about 3 feet away, which is reasonable. That picture is a
crop to about 1/3 of the image area, and this was an M8, so in essence I was 
shooting as if it were a 75. In my head I kept saying
to myself "just ignore the outer reaches of the frame and focus your 
attention and your camera on her face". I think that if I had
shot it with the M6 using a 75 it would have had the same perspective and 
about the same crop. Except 
that I don't have a 75, and I do have a 28....



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