TECHNICALLY it's a myth... CREATIVELY, a longer lens allows you to get further away from your subject and by so doing gives you a flatter perspective. Why over-think this? If I want to shoot a jewelry shot on a model, I use the 300mm f:2.8 because it allows me to get the flattened background and it allows me to get tiny DOF.... I don't use the 24mm and then crop it... There's no way for me to do that pic unless I have that lens... Technical perspectives are only as useful as they support the creative eye. Beyond that they are for technicians, not photographers
On Fri, Feb 19, 2016 at 4:24 AM John Gulliver <j.gulliver@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I agree about Feininger Snr. and his book. He wrote well. I know this picture too, for which he invented a tripod with an extra leg to support not only the camera but the long lens to reduce possible vibration.
Sent from my iPhoneAndreas Feininger was my first photo teacher by way of one of his books ... many of his books were slightly modified versions of the first one. I say this with a twinkle in my eye!-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: Debunking the telephoto lens myth?
From: Jan Faul <jan@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, February 18, 2016 4:40 pm
To: "PHOTOFORUM@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <photoforum@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
My first purchase of a photo book was one by Andrea Feininger in which he showed the use of an extremely long telephoto lens from out in NJ looking towards Manhattan and it compresses NJ into a series of hills and sort of pasted the Empire State Building in at the back. Every time I drove to NYC I thought of his work with the Pulaski Skyway and the flattening of NJ.
