Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/03/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Brian, an alternate viewpoint. Your subject's strong face and expression and the wonderful lighting you have chosen make it a striking and effective photo. Your M8 has cropped the 28's FoV to about that of a 35 and then you have cropped that to use the centre to approximate the 75's FoV, as you say. Certainly though the 28's perspective is visible in her features. You can see in the proportions of your subject's nose, for example. My thinking is that, where the perspective effect is critical to your picture, with an M8 you still might best use a 75 (or a 90) for the classic head and shoulders, but need to step back for the same FoV. Just a thought that may promote discussion. It's well known what the terrible consequences were for GeeBee when he posted a picture of Ethel taken with the 21mm. Cheers Hoppy -----Original Message----- From: lug-bounces+hoppyman=bigpond.net.au@leica-users.org [mailto:lug-bounces+hoppyman=bigpond.net.au@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of Brian Reid Sent: Monday, 5 March 2007 13:24 To: Leica Users Group Subject: Re: [Leica] A PAW shot I really like > unbelievable that she could show up that great that close up with a 28mm > lens I'm not an expert, but I use wide lenses as if they weren't so wide. I was about 3 feet away, which is reasonable. That picture is a crop to about 1/3 of the image area, and this was an M8, so in essence I was shooting as if it were a 75. In my head I kept saying to myself "just ignore the outer reaches of the frame and focus your attention and your camera on her face". I think that if I had shot it with the M6 using a 75 it would have had the same perspective and about the same crop. Except that I don't have a 75, and I do have a 28.... _______________________________________________ Leica Users Group. See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information