On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 06:20:23PM -0400, J.C. O'Connell scripsit: > one thing I don't understand here, and that is that taking a lot > of people pictures would incur MORE use of a longer lens > like 100mm, not the shorter ones. Normal and wide lenses > generally are no-no's for people photos. Your saying you > don't use the normal and short lenes because you don't do > much people shots, but if you did, you would use the longer > lenses even more wouldn't you?
The limited people-shooting I do is all indoor candids -- meaning, pictures of neeves and siblings at family gatherings -- and gets done with the 31, 50, and 77 almost exclusively, an awful lot with the 31 (which is normalish on a K20D). Posed portraits go up, traditionally, to 135mm, at least as I understand it; candid street shots are generally normal or slightly tele, again as I understand it/have seen going by here. (There seems to exist the occasional exception like the fellow who was shooting 800mm/ƒ4 medium format because he wanted completely candid, they have no notion there's a photographer on this block, candid photographs.) -- Graydon -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
