Yep. And I think the picture was OK - more than OK IMO. All the best! Raimo Personal photography homepage at http://www.uusikaupunki.fi/~raikorho
-----Alkuperäinen viesti----- Lähettäjä: Cotty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Vastaanottaja: pentax list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Päivä: 08. tammikuuta 2004 20:42 Aihe: Vs: 50mm Pentax Screwmount >>>>Nah, 50 mm at close up gives intimacy. >>> >>>...and a black eye. Nobody likes their features, particularly noses, >>>exaggerated. I don't buy it. >>> >>>I'm not saying that portraits can't be taken on *any* focal length. I >>>shoot on a 38mm (equivalent) focal length quite regularly - but not on a >>>tight head shot. >>> >>>Depends what you consider acceptable, of course, and I can't argue with >>>that. What I can argue is that if you put that shot and a similar shot of >>>longer focal length and ask her to pick one, she will choose the longer >>>focal length with question. I would eat Frank's bunny ears if she didn't. > >>Yeah, she would - but that does not mean that it would be a better >photograph. >>It would be a standard nondescript snapshot. You do not always have to >>follow every rule in the book. With shorter focal lengths (and look how >>short focal lengths the top photojournalists are using these days) you >>are drawn into the subject´s space and it gives the image more impact. >>And it does not actually distort the image, it´s called perspective and >>everybody is getting used to it. > >I don't follow every rule in the book, never have, never will. I have >also used wide focal lengths for portraiture, so where's the problem? > >I'll write it again: depends what you consider acceptable. > > > > >Cheers, > Cotty > > >___/\__ >|| (O) | People, Places, Pastiche >||=====| www.macads.co.uk/snaps >_____________________________ >Free UK Mac Ads www.macads.co.uk > >
