Monday, April 21, 2008
Myth No. 6 - The best zoom is your legs
It's often said that you don't need extra lenses because the best zoom is your legs. Again, there's quite a bit of truth in it - sometimes if you need to get more in a shot, you can just move backwards, or move closer to fill the frame. Further, you have a chance of finding a better viewpoint than the original one. However, what if you want to use a particular perspective effect that requires a certain viewpoint? Or if you can't physically get closer or move further away? In such circumstances, if you've not got the appropriate lens available, you're stuffed.
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Well Ansel Adams didn't need one - nuff said.
Nuff said indeed - just look at how boring his pics were!
What? Moonrise over Hernandez has got to be the best picture ever. Anyway his most used lense was a convertable, the zoom of it's day.
"Moonrise over Hernandez has got to be the best picture ever"
Well there's a subject for a myth in itself... :)
Yeah? Well show me a better one!
How about Aspens, New Mexico, 1958 - no wait, that's one of his too. Or Mount williamson, 1944? Or White house ruin 1942. Huh this is to easy I'm shooting rats in a barrell here.
More like what the rats leave behind in the barrel...
BORING!
Look, I'm doing my best - if you want more interesting trolling you have to write a more interesting blog! ;-)
Fair comment!
"Anyway his most used lense was a convertable"
WRONG! I can assure you that every photograph Adams ever took, he took using a LENS, not a sodding lense!
Learn to ****ing spell.
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