On 3/30/07, Dan Mitchell <danmitchell@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
SNIP!
>
> As for how useful is it -- for interiors, great. For landscapes, it's
> a great way to take big mountains and make them look very small.. It's
> the lens with which I've taken the most photos that do essentially the
> opposite of what I was intending, if you see what I mean.
>
> The secret is as always to put something in the foreground to fix
> that, and once I'd worked that out it works fine; or use it for
> deliberate distortion, of course.
>
> I'm glad I own it, but I'm also glad I didn't pay very much for mine,
> given how much use it gets overall.
First of all, an excellent example of the use of foreground/background
effect. I rarely use mine 'straight' either. I try to get something
of interest in the foreground and use the DOF to maximum advantage.
Nice backyard BTW! ;o)
Extreme WAs present a conundrum. Really good ones are usually
expensive and most of us use them only rarely so they can be difficult
to justify.
OTOH, if you have your back to a wall and still need extra coverage,
nothing else will really work. Well, stitching, but that's a
different discussion.
FWIW/ScottGee1
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