Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1996/03/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]>> It means you have become a better photographer, and can find value with less change in focal length than before. Your appreciation for subtlety in composition is maturing. It's like 50mm lenses. When someone says it's a boring focal length, I tend to believe it means more that they're a boring photographer. I'm not aiming that comment at anyone here or elsewhere, btw. << Better or worse, boring or exciting ... these qualitative words are difficult. I know my own habits have ebbed and flowed, what I see in a photograph, when I photograph, has changed several times over the years as fit my mood, personal circumstances, target likes and dislikes. For years my lenses became wider and wider angle, I did most of my work close in and personal, spatial seperation via perspective differentiation. In the past two/three years, however, I'm moving out again. I've refound the 50mm, the 70mm, the 90mm. Seperation via focus selectivity. I do portraits with wide angles, scenics with telephotos; I've done the other way around too. The key is to see images, express what is in your mind/heart, capture the image that reminds. Godfrey