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Vary Your Perspective
When a zoom lens is used (instead of a fixed focal length prime lens), there is a strong tendency to use the zoom to fill the frame, rather than choosing what geometric perspective to use, which then determines both the distance and the focal length. Zoom lenses short-circuit this process, and are therefore a creative impediment until and unless the user is aware of perspective and makes a conscious creative choice to “foot zoom” appropriately.
Up close and personal might provide something interesting by focusing attention and making out of focus shapes into abstract patterns.
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Diglloyd DAP is DSLR-oriented, but also contains workflow and other topics. Much of the focus is on Canon and Nikon but also Pentax and Pentax medium format.
Special emphasis is placed on lens evaluation, focusing on Canon and Nikon and Sigma lenses, but with a few others like Rokinon/Samyang.
- Make better images by learning how to get the best results right away.
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- Workflow discusses image organization, raw conversion and post processing. Many examples show processing parameters for direct insight into how the image was converted.
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- Real world examples with insights found nowhere else. Make sharper images just by understanding lens behavior you won’t read about elsewhere.
- Aperture series from wide open through stopped down, showing the full range of lens performance and bokeh.
- Optical quality analysis of field curvature, focus shift, sharpness, flare, distortion, and performance in the field.
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Canon EOS 5D-IR (infrared), Canon EF 16-35mm f/2.8L II