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Luminous landscape sunset9/21/2023 When we look through a camera equipped with a telephoto lens we, in a sense, turn our eyes into telephoto lenses (we do the same when we look through a pair of binoculars). How much a camera sees depends on the focal length of the lens that is attached to it. When looking at the world through a camera we can vary the field of view by changing the lens. While we can focus our attention to a narrow section of our field of view, this field of view remains fixed. Human beings always see the same angular distance, the same field of view. Instead, they have interchangeable, or zoom lenses. Cameras don’t have fixed lenses (except some point and shoot cameras). Our eyes have a fixed focal length, the equivalent of a normal lens (a 50 mm on a 35mm camera and a 150mm lens on a 4×5). In this article, Part 3 of my Aesthetics and photography series, we are going to look very carefully at why learning how to choose the best lens for a specific composition is one of the most challenging decisions you will make on your way to creating top-quality images. In other words, and to go back to my first article in this series “Seeing Photographically” the lens you use should be chosen so that it first follows your vision and, second, suits the composition you want to create. So what is there to know about lens choice that you don’t already know? Well, for one, and this is a big “one”, which lens you use should be based on how you want to depict the scene in front of you. What more is there to the subject? Case done, book closed, let’s move on. You want to photograph something in between the two, you use a normal lens. You want to photograph a faraway detail, you use a telephoto lens. What can be simpler than choosing the right lens for the job? You want to photograph a large landscape, you use a wide angle. We are almost to the point were we will actually take a photograph!Ģ - Lenses are as Important (and perhaps more important) Than the Camera Itself We move from visualization to creation in a sense, and, for the first time, we are going to actually going to use a camera. With lens choice we now start talking about how we can photograph the scene in front of us. In short, each of the steps involved in taking a photograph, from seeing to composing are related. This decision follows your previous decisions about how to compose the scene, and composition follows what you saw in this scene, what you want to photograph in the first place. How to Choose the Best Lens For a Specific Composition 1 - Why it is Important to Talk About LensesĬhoosing the right lens for a specific photograph is an important decision. Together they provide a strong foundation on which to build and refine your photographic skills. These new workshops will focus upon implementing in the field and through exercises, the concepts, techniques and approaches discussed in my essays. This series of essays is related to my (2003-2004) Workshop Series. The overall goal of this series is to help you create a photograph which is aesthetically pleasing: a beautiful photograph. This article is the third in a series of nine essays focused on the aesthetic aspects of photography. Has a Masters degree in Fine Art, and is currently working on his Phd. He was educated at the Ecole des Beaux Art in Paris, Alain Briot is one of the most successful landscape photographers working
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