Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/03/31
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]fine example and well and simply stated Tim. any discussion of lens focal length for documentary work has very much to do with the relationship between one's preferred working distance and desired perspective the notion that people, large or small, will be "too" small with a 28 speaks more about the photographer and camera position than the focal length Regards, George Lottermoser george at imagist.com http://www.imagist.com http://www.imagist.com/blog http://www.linkedin.com/in/imagist On Mar 31, 2009, at 7:08 AM, Tim Gray wrote: > On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 2:07 AM, Mark Rabiner > <mark at rabinergroup.com> wrote: >> If you shoot people it has to be from the waist up or they are >> made into >> dwarves. Dwarves are very nice people too of course. They don't >> want to be >> made to look much smaller than they really are either. > > I agree. But that kind of shot is exactly why I like 28. I can > interact with people from a normal distance and take pictures at the > same time. The framing tends to be waist up-ish of a person > interacting with others or their environment. Perfect for the kind of > photos I like. A 35mm would have worked here: > <http://www.flickr.com/photos/tgray1/3224765829/> > but I would have been a step or two back from where I was actually > standing at the time, interacting with my brother. Which is doable, I > just find that 28 fits my style a lot better than 35. > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information