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<blockquote data-quote="hark" data-source="post: 541653" data-attributes="member: 13196"><p>My first SLR was a manual Minolta camera with a 50mm lens. Back in the 1980's, primes tended to be better than zooms. I added a 28mm, 135mm, and a 200mm. Wide angle lenses make a scene appear further away than what the eye sees whereas telephoto lenses compress distance. One advantage of using primes is being able to <em>see</em> in your minds eye how the scene will appear before you look through the viewfinder (when you take the time to study the differences between lenses). Using primes gives people a chance to learn the differences between focal lengths.</p><p></p><p>In Bryan Peterson's original book, <em>Learning to See Creatively</em>, he spent time teaching about different focal lengths. It looks like he has a much newer, updated version of the book (August 2015) that leaves out a lot of the teaching that focused on wide angle, normal, and telephoto lengths. <strong>Here is a link to the original book:</strong> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Learning-See-Creatively-Compose-Photographs/dp/0817441778" target="_blank">Learning to See Creatively: How to Compose Great Photographs: Watson-Guptill: 9780817441777: Amazon.com: Books</a></p><p></p><p>Looking through the table of contents of <a href="http://smile.amazon.com/Learning-See-Creatively-Third-Composition/dp/1607748274/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1458127590&sr=8-1&keywords=seeing+creatively" target="_blank">the latest version</a>, it doesn't appear to go nearly as much in depth between differences of wide angle vs normal vs telephoto. I learned a lot about focal lengths because of it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="hark, post: 541653, member: 13196"] My first SLR was a manual Minolta camera with a 50mm lens. Back in the 1980's, primes tended to be better than zooms. I added a 28mm, 135mm, and a 200mm. Wide angle lenses make a scene appear further away than what the eye sees whereas telephoto lenses compress distance. One advantage of using primes is being able to [I]see[/I] in your minds eye how the scene will appear before you look through the viewfinder (when you take the time to study the differences between lenses). Using primes gives people a chance to learn the differences between focal lengths. In Bryan Peterson's original book, [I]Learning to See Creatively[/I], he spent time teaching about different focal lengths. It looks like he has a much newer, updated version of the book (August 2015) that leaves out a lot of the teaching that focused on wide angle, normal, and telephoto lengths. [B]Here is a link to the original book:[/B] [URL="http://www.amazon.com/Learning-See-Creatively-Compose-Photographs/dp/0817441778"]Learning to See Creatively: How to Compose Great Photographs: Watson-Guptill: 9780817441777: Amazon.com: Books[/URL] Looking through the table of contents of [URL="http://smile.amazon.com/Learning-See-Creatively-Third-Composition/dp/1607748274/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1458127590&sr=8-1&keywords=seeing+creatively"]the latest version[/URL], it doesn't appear to go nearly as much in depth between differences of wide angle vs normal vs telephoto. I learned a lot about focal lengths because of it. [/QUOTE]
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