Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/10/31
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On Thursday, October 31, 2002, at 02:01 PM, Andrew Nemeth wrote: > Unlike John I use a 16mm full-frame fisheye, so I can > take fewer shots with more overlap between each. Makes > shooting and stitching (in PShop) much easier. Also, > you don't cut people's heads off irrespective of how > close people get (c.f. the girl eating the icecream in > John's shot). I have tinkered with wider lenses, eg the 15mm Voigtlander on the Leica-M, but for this kind of thing you just have to get too damn close. Even with the roughly 20mm equivalent I used on the N5000, people have to be standing literally two or three feet from you before they dominate the frame satisfactorily. The pans I shot with the 15mm just felt too disengaged. I also like the slightly more cinemascope feeling from the longer lens. Andrew however has the advantage that his fisheye probably doesn't suffer from light fall off, which I sometimes have to battle (successfully) with adjustment layers. I know that plenty of VR photographers feature people... but I am not aware of many who take people as their subject, especially shooting in the uncontrolled environment of the street. I can see why VR photogs are nervous, since the vast majority of their work is commercially oriented and thus does not have the editorial/artistic protection that generally extends to photography in public places. I am in the fortunate position of never having earned a cent from my photography (not in the last decade, anyhow). - -- Johnny Deadman - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html