Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/03/31
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Yes I think you're about ok with waist up framing with a 28. Knees up though and you start to Dwarf them. Not so good. Mark William Rabiner > From: Tim Gray <tgray at 125px.com> > Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2009 08:08:04 -0400 > To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > Subject: Re: [Leica] VoigVoigtlander 28mm Question > > 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