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What lenses do we need?

Started Jun 4, 2014 | Polls thread
Olydude Regular Member • Posts: 259
Re: What lenses do we need?

There's not much to be jealous about, I like party tricks with lenses, I can also understand the traditional approach to shooting landscapes where you want a wide aperture for more depth of field. However, by this time of the day depth of field related issues become less obvious and the advantage of a fast lens comes into its own and makes your photos sing.

By 5:20pm in Australia on an early winters day the sky is basically black, there was no good light to shoot in as it was, and on most days a photographer would look up at the sky and mumble something along the lines of "forget about it."

You miss the opportunities others see of seeing the illumination of the neon signs and the differences in lighting with older style incandescent lighting in the streets as well as the natural blue in the sky that occurs when you shoot at that time of the day that despite it being overcast, it makes something interesting out of the cloud pattern in the sky.

Either that or you can just walk away and not bother...

 Olydude's gear list:Olydude's gear list
Olympus PEN E-PL5 Olympus M.Zuiko Digital 14-42mm 1:3.5-5.6 II R Olympus M.Zuiko Digital ED 40-150mm F4-5.6 R Olympus M.Zuiko Digital ED 12mm 1:2
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