A dream : to be alone in a museum. Great perspective ! Wide angle ?
22 May 2008 6:30pm
@zOOm: Thanks for visiting, Zoom. As to the lens, yes. My favorite is my 10-20mm by Sigma. I also enjoy the shallow depth of field of a 1.8/f 50mm so I will be exploring a balance between the two worlds soon. More glass, though, means more money.
To answer your question, I like close-ups more than anything, so that's why I often macro lenses such as a sigma 150 mm 2.8... but I also use my canon 70/300 mm for animals... my wide angle is mainly for architectural pictures... I scarcely do portraits (humans beeings do not interest me in photography)...
25 May 2008 12:04pm
@zOOm: zOOm, thanks for the reply. I am considering such zoom lenses, but I feel I still need to perfect the use of the ones I already have. I´m experimenting on getting as close as possible to people in my street photography with the wide. When it comes to raw, candid work it gets very difficult. More than shy I am very --perhaps overly-- cautious about offending or scaring people. Mexico City is a very unsafe place and people have the tendency to mistrust. Journalist are not well seen in Mexico and the camera I use most of the time is a huge SLR. I am looking into a film rangefinder or a solid all-purpose high-res compact for street: the canon G9 or Sigma's new 14 megapixel compact seem like two worth trying.