Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/06/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]In a message dated 6/26/99 3:41:18 AM Pacific Daylight Time, gbennett@club-internet.fr writes: <snip> << to my mind, the wider focal lengths seem to be most useful for two kinds of shots - on the one hand, drawing attention to a dominent foreground element while emphasizing its spatial relationship with the background and, on the other, giving a sweeping 'vista' type shot, a scene seen from a distance including a vast amount of visual information >> I've always found wide angles (especially in conjunction with perspective control shifts) the most useful for interior shots and close-quarter shots in cities (tight shots with very little foreground-background emphasis really). Using wa's for scenics has always disappointed me. These days there are some convenient options (panoramic cameras and camera backs, digital "stitching" software) that allow me to use a normal lens to record those sweeping vistas with a foreground-bakground perspective closer to what I actually saw at the time. DT