The less you have to zoom into later the better... film or digital, I
think. But when I shot slides I absolutely went for getting it just right
when I was shooting... I never studied photography formally and I
learned just by doing, so early on it didn't occur to me to do anything
_but_ "taking pictures" of what I saw the way I saw it through the SLR.
I learned on my husband's camera and only had a 50 mm lens for a
fairly long time.
When I got serious about it and started shooting BW the classic bag of
primes for my KX, the firs Pentax I had, was a 50, 28 and 135.
I got an extension tube but was terrible at it.
I still shoot that way, pretty much, however, I often bracket framing,
so to speak, to include a bit more than I"d want to print/show
because (a) I know I can't see the full frame in the viewfinder and (b)
I can shoot a little faster if I'm not too close to my subject and
I don't have the camera tripod mounted. (I cant hold the camera steady
as Id like)
ann
Larry Colen wrote:
Compose in the camera, or in the darkroom?
Most of my time doing photography, when I had access to a darkroom, my only glass was a
58/1.4 and a 2x tele converter. As a result I did a lot of "zooming",
recropping and recomposing in the darkroom, and I've noticed that those habits carry
forward a lot today. I'm very comfortable shooting with a prime, or if I have a zoom,
shooting a bit wider than optimal, and doing my final recomposition in post processing.
I'm curious if other people who had a limited choice of focal lengths as they
learned photography share this trait.
On the contrary, I'd guess that people who learned photography either shooting
slides, or without access to a darkroom (or post processing software) are a lot
more finicky about composing in the camera.
Or it could be that I'm just lazy when I know that if I blow it I can just fix
it later.
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