Become a Good Photographer, Part Seven: Choose Lenses Based On You, Not Your Activity

The standard advice for lens selection follows a simple formula: match the focal length to the genre. Portraits need 85mm or longer. Landscapes want 20mm or shorter. Street photography lives at 50mm. This reasoning isn’t entirely wrong, but it misses…
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Become a Good Photographer, Part Seven: Choose Lenses Based On You, Not Your Activity

◈ Become a Good Photographer, Part Seven: Choose Lenses Based On You, Not Your Activity

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The Life of Others

I took this photo a good while back. I was arriving in Paris by train, and a commuter train overtook us (for some reason I was allegedly in…

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Become a Good Photographer, Part Six: Don’t Learn From Teachers

There is no shortage of people eager to tech you photography online these days. There are probably many tens of thousands of videos on YT. Maybe millions of…

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Paws in the sand

I posted this photo last week as my contribution to Aminus3’s photo prompt: minimal. I thought I might as well explain it here.

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