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New Foto Tip by Mark Alberhasy - A Perspective on Lenses
Hi All,
I've just posted the latest Foto Tip by Mark Alberhasky on DIMi: http://www.dimagemaker.com/specials/fototips.php It is on lenses and I can heartily endorse Mark's great advice. Mark is a Nikon Mentor in the US. Cheers, Wayne Wayne J. Cosshall Publisher, The Digital ImageMaker, http://www.dimagemaker.com/ Blog http://www.digitalimagemakerworld.com/ Publisher, Experimental Digital Photography http://www.experimentaldigitalphotography.com Coordindinator of Studies, Multimedia and Photomedia, Australian Academy of Design Personal art site http://www.artinyourface.com/ |
New Foto Tip by Mark Alberhasy - A Perspective on Lenses
"Wayne J. Cosshall" wrote in message u... I've just posted the latest Foto Tip by Mark Alberhasky on DIMi: http://www.dimagemaker.com/specials/fototips.php It is on lenses and I can heartily endorse Mark's great advice. Mark is a Nikon Mentor in the US. I'm sure I'm not the only one who has been saying the same thing for years! MrT. |
New Foto Tip by Mark Alberhasy - A Perspective on Lenses
Mr.T wrote:
"Wayne J. Cosshall" wrote in message u... I've just posted the latest Foto Tip by Mark Alberhasky on DIMi: http://www.dimagemaker.com/specials/fototips.php It is on lenses and I can heartily endorse Mark's great advice. Mark is a Nikon Mentor in the US. I'm sure I'm not the only one who has been saying the same thing for years! MrT. No you are not. But of course with newcomers migrating to dSLRs all the time it does need to be said again and again. It see it with my incoming students all the time. Their idea of a fast lens is f4 and a really fast one f2.8. It is the zoom mentality. Now nothing wrong with zooms, I love my ones, but they are not the whole answer. Cheers, Wayne -- Wayne J. Cosshall Publisher, The Digital ImageMaker, http://www.dimagemaker.com/ Blog http://www.digitalimagemakerworld.com/ |
New Foto Tip by Mark Alberhasy - A Perspective on Lenses
"Wayne J. Cosshall" wrote No you are not. But of course with newcomers migrating to dSLRs all the time it does need to be said again and again. It see it with my incoming students all the time. Their idea of a fast lens is f4 and a really fast one f2.8. It is the zoom mentality. Now nothing wrong with zooms, I love my ones, but they are not the whole answer. Not mentioned in Mark's article: The need for a "fast" lens has become less pressing with today's DSLRs providing for 4- stop ISO changes, e.g. from ISO 100 to 800, with virtually no sharpness / noise penalties (and decent pictures even at 1600 or 3200),. Get me right, I love to use my f1.4 prime lens and agree with the "Cartier-Bresson" approach to learn to see through just one focal length. On the other hand, Mark's "No more zoom in, zoom out. You've got to look for the right subject and the right composition" is misleading. Any decent photographer w/o a zoom will use his legs to get the right framing! Cheers, Hank |
New Foto Tip by Mark Alberhasy - A Perspective on Lenses
"Herb Ludwig" wrote in message ... "Wayne J. Cosshall" wrote No you are not. But of course with newcomers migrating to dSLRs all the time it does need to be said again and again. It see it with my incoming students all the time. Their idea of a fast lens is f4 and a really fast one f2.8. It is the zoom mentality. Now nothing wrong with zooms, I love my ones, but they are not the whole answer. Not mentioned in Mark's article: The need for a "fast" lens has become less pressing with today's DSLRs providing for 4- stop ISO changes, e.g. from ISO 100 to 800, with virtually no sharpness / noise penalties (and decent pictures even at 1600 or 3200),. Get me right, I love to use my f1.4 prime lens and agree with the "Cartier-Bresson" approach to learn to see through just one focal length. On the other hand, Mark's "No more zoom in, zoom out. You've got to look for the right subject and the right composition" is misleading. Any decent photographer w/o a zoom will use his legs to get the right framing! Cheers, Hank Well, maybe not quite that simple -- a) the refs get a bit upset if I am out in the middle of the soccer field during the game to "get the right framing" and b) many times, I want a different perspective between the foreground subject and the background (mountains etc) - it takes a different focal length to get the perspective right too (yes, you still need to use your legs to get it right though) mikey |
New Foto Tip by Mark Alberhasy - A Perspective on Lenses
"Mike Fields" spam_me_not_mr.gadget2@comcastDOTnet wrote Well, maybe not quite that simple -- a) the refs get a bit upset if I am out in the middle of the soccer field during the game to "get the right framing" and b) many times, I want a different perspective between the foreground subject and the background (mountains etc) - it takes a different focal length to get the perspective right too (yes, you still need to use your legs to get it right though) Yes, of course, there are a number of situations where the legs alone won't do it. Indoors, for instance, where a nasty wall may soon crowd one's effort to step back-:) Thanks for pointing out the importance of the foreground / background perspective. I use my Canon DSLR with 3 lenses (17-40 f4 Zoom, a 50 f1.4 Prime and a 70-200 f4 Zoom) and find that I take about 50% of my pictures with the 17-40 f4 lens, because I like its perspective on a 1.6 crop camera. Cheers, Hank |
New Foto Tip by Mark Alberhasy - A Perspective on Lenses
"Herb Ludwig" wrote in message ... "Mike Fields" spam_me_not_mr.gadget2@comcastDOTnet wrote Well, maybe not quite that simple -- a) the refs get a bit upset if I am out in the middle of the soccer field during the game to "get the right framing" and b) many times, I want a different perspective between the foreground subject and the background (mountains etc) - it takes a different focal length to get the perspective right too (yes, you still need to use your legs to get it right though) Yes, of course, there are a number of situations where the legs alone won't do it. Indoors, for instance, where a nasty wall may soon crowd one's effort to step back-:) Thanks for pointing out the importance of the foreground / background perspective. I use my Canon DSLR with 3 lenses (17-40 f4 Zoom, a 50 f1.4 Prime and a 70-200 f4 Zoom) and find that I take about 50% of my pictures with the 17-40 f4 lens, because I like its perspective on a 1.6 crop camera. Cheers, Hank I have seen more people bitten with the foreground/background thing. Out in the open country somewhere with a beautiful mountain backdrop, they shoot the picture of someone from up close with the wide angle then notice when they get home the "magnificent mountain scenery" that was there when they took the picture is just a couple of little bumps behind their subject. Always the same comment "gee I don't understand, the mountains looked so much bigger when we were there". Step back even 10 feet, zoom in a bit to frame the subject and voila - the mountains are there !! (unless you live in Kansas, in which case, there is no hope for mountains .. ) mikey |
New Foto Tip by Mark Alberhasy - A Perspective on Lenses
"Mike Fields" spam_me_not_mr.gadget2@comcastDOTnet wrote: I have seen more people bitten with the foreground/background thing. Out in the open country somewhere with a beautiful mountain backdrop, they shoot the picture of someone from up close with the wide angle then notice when they get home the "magnificent mountain scenery" that was there when they took the picture is just a couple of little bumps behind their subject. Always the same comment "gee I don't understand, the mountains looked so much bigger when we were there". Step back even 10 feet, zoom in a bit to frame the subject and voila - the mountains are there !! (unless you live in Kansas, in which case, there is no hope for mountains .. ) When one wants to enhance the size of distant mountains, the condensed perspective of a tele lens is certainly the way to go. My personal taste for landscape images goes rather in the opposite, wide-angle direction, where the foreground subject is emphazised and the feeling of depth enhanced. Therefore my preference and reliance on the 17-40 f4 Zoom. Here is an example of the kind of image I strive to emulate: http://www.pbase.com/paskuk/image/65952350 Cheers, Hank |
New Foto Tip by Mark Alberhasy - A Perspective on Lenses
Herb Ludwig wrote:
"Mike Fields" spam_me_not_mr.gadget2@comcastDOTnet wrote: I have seen more people bitten with the foreground/background thing. Out in the open country somewhere with a beautiful mountain backdrop, they shoot the picture of someone from up close with the wide angle then notice when they get home the "magnificent mountain scenery" that was there when they took the picture is just a couple of little bumps behind their subject. Always the same comment "gee I don't understand, the mountains looked so much bigger when we were there". Step back even 10 feet, zoom in a bit to frame the subject and voila - the mountains are there !! (unless you live in Kansas, in which case, there is no hope for mountains .. ) When one wants to enhance the size of distant mountains, the condensed perspective of a tele lens is certainly the way to go. My personal taste for landscape images goes rather in the opposite, wide-angle direction, where the foreground subject is emphazised and the feeling of depth enhanced. Therefore my preference and reliance on the 17-40 f4 Zoom. Here is an example of the kind of image I strive to emulate: http://www.pbase.com/paskuk/image/65952350 Beautiful photos! Tuli |
New Foto Tip by Mark Alberhasy - A Perspective on Lenses
The thing is, yes we all know this but many others don't. It is easy to
forget that new people are coming to photography all the time as a new hobby, or moving up in their attention to it. Things like stepping back and using a longer lens has to be learned. And even using the feet instead of the zoom has to be learned. It is not automatic, especially now that the standard lens sold with effectively all cameras is a zoom. For beginners, zooms give the impression you can stay in one spot and get a range of results, which you can. But learning that this is not always what you want to do needs to be taught. It is one of the many things we have to teach students. Cheers, Wayne -- Wayne J. Cosshall Publisher, The Digital ImageMaker, http://www.dimagemaker.com/ Blog http://www.digitalimagemakerworld.com/ |
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