PKR
Veteran
Why quit if you get paid to have fun? Every thing I photograph is fun these days.
x-ray
Veteran
I still work and I do like the $ but want to spend more time with my wife and do more travel with her. Time for more fun with her.
By the way I met my wife through work. She was creative director for a retail clothing chain and I used to shoot their catalogs and ads. We'd shoot in the busy season two or three days a week in the studio and work about 12-14 hours a day. We'd go out to dinner at the end of the day and enjoyed each other. We were both divorced and things evolved. I joked that we never had a real date until after we were married. I said officially I was taking my client to dinner as part of the job so our unofficial courtship was a tax write off.
PKR
Veteran
That's great. Just send a friendly note or maybe hold a dinner for your best clients. Tell them if they really want you (some will) that jobs need to accommodate some vacation time with the wife. I've worked in a lot of vacation spots while working for high end hotel chain clients. I spent a week in Hawaii for one. That's where I had the drunk helicopter pilot. He died a week after I left the islands with 5 aboard a Long Ranger. I should have called the FAA but didn't get back home in time. I was thinking about work and not about him until I saw the news story on Christmas eve.
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So x-ray, have your favorite focal length lenses changed over time ?
My color is mostly done with a 35 or 50. That hasn't changed. But, I found the more B&W I did, for myself, the more I used a 28. I don't know why. I did some calculations ..
A 35 has an AOV of 63.5 deg , a 28 has 75 deg . When using a 35, at 10' if I step back just 2 1/2 Ft I have the same field of view as with a 28.
At 20 feet from a 30' subject FOV with a 28, you get the same FOV with a 35mm lens at just 25', only a 5' difference.
The step back distance is minimal, until you get to wide fields of view. But putting the 28 to my eye is visually pleasing. This is psycho-physiological .. it's brain candy. I have no idea what's going on, and it came over time. I really see a 50/55 necessary for color, but this black and white thing is interesting. Do you think it comes as being able to better pre-visualize over time? And the lens suits the mind? I know processing 28mm worth of visual info tales more "something" than what's necessary for 35mm's worth of info. With Color being more complex it would make sense that a narrow field is easier to process.
Have you seen changes in your lens AOV taste ? It was a real unconscious thing with me. I kept grabbing a 28 when I would normally use a 35. The images are great. No wasted space, etc.
(For others reading this..
I know the psych theory behind black and white photos being further from reality than color, thus, "maybe" taking more mental horse power to do well.. as per Ralph Gibson's theory. I don't know that I buy it.)