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<blockquote data-quote="Horoscope Fish" data-source="post: 474485" data-attributes="member: 13090"><p>No photography teacher I've ever had told me there are three types of landscape; it's something I've intuited, I guess, from looking at a lot of landscape photography and in trying to improve my own. I don't necessarily take credit for the concept but neither have I heard anyone else postulate them as I have. </p><p></p><p>As for any other focal lengths you might want to consider, I'll just toss this out anecdotally... When I was shooing DX primarily I bought a Sigma 30mm F1.4 DC HSM Art for my D7100. Unfortunately what I found was that the lens would not focus properly unless I was using the center focus point: if I moved away from that specific focus point all hell broke loose. I would like to think it was just my copy of that lens, or a weird interaction that was one of those one-in-a-million "things" that just happen because for me there was something really magical about shooting a DX body at 30mm. It felt... <em>PERFECT</em>. I really can't explain it any better than that and I know it doesn't make any sense; 5mm really shouldn't have a huge impact, right? But somehow, it did. So there you have my little anecdote. If you can try shooting at 30mm (tape down an 18-55mm or something, perhaps?) I can only suggest you try it and see what you think.</p><p><span style="color: #FFFFFF">.....</span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Horoscope Fish, post: 474485, member: 13090"] No photography teacher I've ever had told me there are three types of landscape; it's something I've intuited, I guess, from looking at a lot of landscape photography and in trying to improve my own. I don't necessarily take credit for the concept but neither have I heard anyone else postulate them as I have. As for any other focal lengths you might want to consider, I'll just toss this out anecdotally... When I was shooing DX primarily I bought a Sigma 30mm F1.4 DC HSM Art for my D7100. Unfortunately what I found was that the lens would not focus properly unless I was using the center focus point: if I moved away from that specific focus point all hell broke loose. I would like to think it was just my copy of that lens, or a weird interaction that was one of those one-in-a-million "things" that just happen because for me there was something really magical about shooting a DX body at 30mm. It felt... [I]PERFECT[/I]. I really can't explain it any better than that and I know it doesn't make any sense; 5mm really shouldn't have a huge impact, right? But somehow, it did. So there you have my little anecdote. If you can try shooting at 30mm (tape down an 18-55mm or something, perhaps?) I can only suggest you try it and see what you think. [COLOR="#FFFFFF"].....[/COLOR] [/QUOTE]
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