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What is wrong with me? Or, a journey through focal lengths

Started Dec 8, 2018 | Discussions thread
Truman Prevatt
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Re: What is wrong with me? Or, a journey through focal lengths
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You are crazy as a loon and must seek help immediately if not sooner! RELAX you are going through an evolution of finding out how you want to visualize the world in your photography. Different focal lengths depict the world differently. Longer focal lengths will eliminate distraction as wide angle lenses will accentuate distractions.

Ansel Adams, one of the greatest landscape photographers of our time - did not use wide angle much less ultra wide angle - his favorite lens for landscape was about a 60 mm equivalent FF lens. The focal length selections modulates the scene in may different ways, from lateral magnification to axial magnification to angle of view that will include or exclude of axis objects - which are often distractions to the main subject of the main focus of the scene.

So keep on your journey until you settle on your preferred vision of the world. I often used slightly longer than normal for landscape and I often use a normal (35 f1.4 on my Pro2) on landscape.

25 f1.4

And standing at approximately the same spot a little later on the same boring at 50 mm

Same peak - the "Great." But vastly different interpretations.

Find what you like - after all it is your vision.

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