Shoot or risk a swap ?

Shoot or risk a swap ?

  • You take the risk of no shot ... swap to 35mm

    Votes: 7 7.9%

  • You stay with 90mm and try to get most of it

    Votes: 36 40.4%

  • Take a quick shot with 90mm, risk and swap to 35mm

    Votes: 37 41.6%

  • You pass your way, don't like these cheesy shots

    Votes: 5 5.6%

  • You ask the guy if you can join in ...

    Votes: 4 4.5%
  • Total voters
    89
Now, I know that the 90 is definitely not the best lens for every shot... but.. I'd like to think I'd still be able to get a good shot off with it in this situation. It wouldn't be the SAME shot, it would be tighter on their bodies/faces, with the background less important and blurred. But If I have a 90 on, I'm thinking of my shots as they should look....with a 90. If I have time to shoot something else w/ another lens later, great... But I'm probably going to see the scene initially with the idea of shooting the 90 anyway (or whatever lens I have mounted!), and work accordingly.

(and I will walk around with a lens I don't use as much on my camera just so that I get a different perspective on things than I would w/ my normal 50 or 35... some days I shoot nothing but a 135! It's a fun exercise, sometimes frustrating, sometimes amazing.)
 
Take the shot as is. For me, getting a shot comes before getting the shot. Better to have something than nothing ... I'm a simple guy.
 
I would move on...That shot's been done...
Besides, I wouldn't want to deal with the couple coming after me (Magnum Members in good standing) complaining that I cannot photograph them on the street...
Then, if I post the shot it would be deleted for liability reasons...because they are having an affair and don't want their spouses or family finding out...:bang:

PASS...
 
Get the shot. Photographers take photographs.

First with the 90mm because that's ready and then with the 35mm if that's what would be optimum.

There's always time not to take the shot when you're dead and film is cheap.
 
nikon_sam said:
I would move on...That shot's been done...
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With that state of mind, I might as well stay home and shoot my flowers with some ice cream melting on it ... for sure it won't have been done before 😀. Seriously, in my case, whatever has been done before really does not matter to me, 2009 is not the 50's and I am not after creating my own extraterrian style. So click here to see how Parisians kiss in 2009 ... (not staged by the way, luckily I had the 35mm on and was not allowed to join in...😉)
 
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I'm with anti-quark. Walking around paris with a 90 on seems a bit silly.

Too much of a speciality focal length to not have a second body with a normal or wide on it. IMO.

But if for whatever reason, I was stuck with a 90 on... take the shot.. then swap to the 35 I should have had anyway, and if I'm lucky enough, grab the shot again.
 
Take the shot with the 90.
Your reasoning for changing to a 35 is based on your desire to mimic a pic you’ve seen before.
Make the 90 work for you in an attempt to capture something original in the moment.
Try to ignore the ‘famous’ pics floating around in your mind as you shoot.
They come between you and your ability to see the world anew.
 
People,
As the original issue was how much of that city hall should be included, stepping back doesn't change a thing.
Moreover, it seems people keep on talking about a 90mm like it's something of the devil's toy. Like it cannot be used for proper street shooting.
Hogwash.

Finally: WHY on Earth would you try so hard to do it "the Doisneau way", so hard that you even wouldn't make a 90mm attempt?

this discussion sounds very much like a reunion of a religious group.
 
Well I was in Paris over the holidays and did see "the kiss" and took the shot, imagining that my print would immediately be taken to the Louvre even before I developed it. Of course it was just as the sun was going down and I was shooting manual and I forgot to adjust my exposure..... yep, seriously underexposed.

I guess I'll keep my day job.
 
newspaperguy said:
BTW - Yan never said how close they (or you) were.
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You are right!
The whole Doisneau kiss thing was an image/metaphor to illustrate the theme, but I guess we got stuck on the scene itself which was not the intent.

So people, imagine whatever scene that would allow your "once in a lifetime shot", yet you have the wrong lens on (90mm, 15mm, etc ...) ... the scene might last between 3 and 10 seconds ... what do you do ? Shoot or gamble on a swap for a more adecuate lens ?
 
Get the shot! Chances are pretty good that if I needed a 35 for the perfect shot, I'd have my 100mm and maybe my 50. Murphy's Law.

How many remembered to take the lens cap off first?
 
yanidel said:
So people, imagine whatever scene that would allow your "once in a lifetime shot", yet you have the wrong lens on (90mm, 15mm, etc ...) ... the scene might last between 3 and 10 seconds ... what do you do ?
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I face this dilemma quite often. My response is always the same, find some way to use the lens you have on the camera. I just have the mindset that there is never the "wrong lens" only one that requires you to use a bit of creativity.

And I find that some of my best photos come from a different approach necessitated by using a lens that most would not consider for that situation.
 
I voted for taking the shot, then swapping for a better one if possible. I will admit though, it's very rare that I don't have a stock 50mm on the front of the Pentax or Petri.
 
i think the "oh wow, i gotta get this shot!" and then swapping is kinda kooky... put a lens on that you want to shoot with and adapt what you're doing to that lens. if someone too far away is doing something interesting, get closer or miss out. you can't get 'em all...
 
each time I try to change lens so quick as possible I risk to see my beloved lens fall down, if not the two lenses I'm changing ! and as amateur I have to satisfy only myself, if it works ok, otherwise there will be another time! Keep the one on the camera and try to get the best out of it !
robert (blu...)
 
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