THE SAME COMPOSITION, SAME LOCATION, REPEATEDLY
January 26, 2023 Tips Shooting the same composition, in the same location, repeatedly. Shooting the same location or even nearly the same composition, many
It’s been a while since I didn’t publish any photo-blog post! I’ve spent the whole month mastering night astro-landscape photography with my cheap lens: A lot of trials and errors, a lot of wasted photographs… The 50mm lens (120$), a cheap plastic lens but a fast one (F1.8) is usually considered as a “zoom lens” if used in landscape photography.
The photographs in this blog-post are taken with the 50mm lens: Either multiple panoramic images stitched together (Photograph 1 & 2) or captured a bit far from the location (Photograph 3).
My friend asked me why I am wasting my time with these trials and errors, while I can simply use a proper wide angle lens which is dedicated to landscape photography. Well, I like challenges in photography and I wanted to get decent results using cheap gear: My 120$ lens can deliver great results similar to those of my 1300$ lens; sharp and crisp images when I nailed its manual focus! (Believe me, it wasn’t easy at all…)
DEPTH, COMPRESSION & PLAYING WITH SIZE.
Wide angle lenses play a bad role in expanding the sense of depth in an image, by enlarging elements in the foreground and shrinking those in the back, hence, awesome mountains look small while on the other hand, zoom lenses compress depth, causing objects near and far to appear more similar in size.
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The above photograph shows how wide angle lenses (15mm F2.8) expand the sense of depth in a photo, you can compare it to the first one where the mountains look exactly how it is seen by our naked eyes.
Conclusion: Do use your 50mm lens in landscape photography! Don’t keep it in your bag; Attach it to your camera and have fun shooting with it!
