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It is not so difficult to say what the best portrait lens is. You want a medium telephoto lens from 85 mm through 105mm and 135mm. You pick the widest aperture you can afford and that may mean 85/1.2 at great expense. The background could be so well blurred that you do not need a studio back drop. My favourite is of course the 180/2.8.
It is not so difficult to say what the best portrait lens is. You want a medium telephoto lens from 85 mm through 105mm and 135mm. You pick the widest aperture you can afford and that may mean 85/1.2 at great expense. The background could be so well blurred that you do not need a studio back drop. My favourite is of course the 180/2.8.
with 180/2.8 Taken in France.
© Am Ang Zhang 2005
Now, when it comes to landscape, I am going to go against the grain (in true Cockroach Catcher style) and suggest something different.
So you are not recommending the 18 mm superwide then.
No!!!
250mm.
What? That is a telephoto lens! I thought that should be for birds and safari.
May well be.
But because of the better resolution, you have situations where you can make use of it.
But such a narrow angle of view?
Ah! But you can take a number of photos and stitch them together. You can use either Photoshop or there are free softwares including one from Microsoft that can be used for panoramic merging.
Here are 4 photos I took on my recent cruise. We reached Panama at dawn.
Four straight shots with 250mm lens © Am Ang Zhang 2011
Oooops here is a nice boat © Am Ang Zhang 2011
Put them through Photoshop© Am Ang Zhang 2011
Move the boat up© Am Ang Zhang 2011
Some minor photoshopping
Panama © Am Ang Zhang 2011
Vatican
Vatican
© Am Ang Zhang 2011
As most of my fellow travellers did one simple click with their point-and-shoot, I was clicking away my trusted Nikon DSLR with its 250mm lens.
“I see you are taking so many pictures: WHY?”
“I stitch them together!!!”
“Wow!!! Must be fun!!!”
"Indeed!"
Here is the result:
© Am Ang Zhang 2011
It is the detail that matters!!!
© Am Ang Zhang 2011
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