Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/03/27
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]> Almost all of my Central America shots are wide open. It's very, very dark > inside those adobe houses! That's why I buy Leica lenses. They are the > best fast lenses. I still love my Noctilux. > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/tinamanley/61853_50023.jpg.html > > <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/tinamanley/61853_50023.jpg.html>Tina > > >> Its good to be able to shoot wide open when you need to. >> The idea that you'd almost never NOT need to is pretty amazing to me as a >> commercial photographer for 33 years. Wide open shooting was luxury my >> work >> in any area could seldom afford. Even in the photojournalism I did I shot >> it >> at f 8 or f11 and used a flash. Certainly not the landscape work I did and >> fine art stuff I did for a show which I did about once a year in some >> gallery even if it was a coffee shop. >> Half my stuff was on the white seamless backdrop I shot it at f11. >> >> When shooting commercially I fot the distant from the front of the object >> I >> needed in focus to the back. Then I calculated which f stop I need to get >> the whole thing front to back in focus. It was never wide open. Sometimes >> it >> was on a tripod and it was f22. >> >> I got my M6 with the idea of only using it for my fine art street shooting >> but soon used it on the backdrop and shot a variety of jobs with it. About >> none of it wide open. >> >> Wide open shooting seems to be a thing photojournist have done in the past >> ten years or so this super selected razor thing area of what's in focus it >> hardly is done for the bulk of photography. And its a style which I think >> has come to an end. In the beginning of digital when everyone was shooting >> cropped format it was certainly given up then. With the smaller format I >> was near impossible to get the limited in focus are look. You got >> everything in focus even it 2.8 with a wide zoom. >> >> Ok I just image Googled "best photojournalism photo" and I can't find one >> shot which appears to be shot wide open. Try it. Deep depth of field >> seems >> to be back. >> >> "best photojournalism photo" >> >> >> [Rabs] >> Mark William Rabiner >> >> >> >> Me too! [Rabs] Mark William Rabiner