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- From: fiddler@concertina.Eng.Sun.COM (steve hix)
- Newsgroups: rec.photo
- Subject: Re: candids
- Date: 19 Nov 1992 20:52:46 GMT
- Organization: Sun Microsystems, Mt. View, Ca.
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- References: <BxuGv9.I23@cs.dal.ca> <1992Nov17.154543.23535@PacBell.COM> <1992Nov18.135438.18725@lmpsbbs.comm.mot.com> <1992Nov19.154147.14887@PacBell.COM>
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- In article <1992Nov19.154147.14887@PacBell.COM> jpglori@srv.PacBell.COM (John P. Gloria) writes:
- >In article <1992Nov18.135438.18725@lmpsbbs.comm.mot.com> dougb@ecs.comm.mot.com writes:
- >>
- >>Actually, in my experience as a yearbook photographer, many candids
- >>look better when there is little depth of field. It makes the picture
- >>and the subject stand out from the page. Often times candids taken with
- >>a wide angle (35mm is wide angle, not normal) lens will suffer becuase
- >>the viewer can't always figure out what the subject was.
- >
- >Your statement about shooting with a 35mm lens and the subject
- >suffering because the viewer cannot figure what it is, is truly
- >dumbfounding to me. The 35mm lens has long been a "standard/normal"
- >lens, long before it became fashionable to have the myriad of
- >lens available today. The 35mm lens is an excellent lens and the
- >pictures that I have shot with it have been very normal and the
- >subjects very distinguishable. Even shooting with a 20mm lens,
- >the subjects are distinguishable.
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- If you have a very busy background, extreme depth of field could
- well make it hard to pick out the main subject (one can't always
- get ideal backgrounds...or subjects, for that matter). :}
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- Especially in black and white shots, using a shallower depth of
- field can make the difference between a good shot and one that
- is absolutely unusable.
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- In other words: you're both right. (More verbosely; it's good to
- have the tools to do the job, and even better to use those tools
- to their limits.)
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