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
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Imagine you are in Paris in front of the town house and suddenly you see a couple starting to kiss (yes ... the Doisneau kiss). This could be the shot of a lifetime yet, bad luck, you have you 90mm lens on ...

What do you do ? Shoot or swap for a 35mm ?

Assumptions :
- the kiss will last between 3 to 10 seconds (you don't know how passionate they are...)
- the most you can include the town house in the shot, the better.

Options :
1) Swap immediately to 35mm, you risk to miss the shot if it lasts 3 seconds.
2) Stay with 90mm, do the best, yet this might not be the shot of a lifetime.
3) Take a quick shot with 90mm, swap to 35mm. If the kiss last less than 5 seconds, you miss it with the 35mm.

The theme behind this thread is obviously, how do you react in case of having to take a quick decison. Stay with what you have or gamble and swap ?
 
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... there is one option missing in the poll, "I raise the second camera, having the 35mm lens mounted, to my eye" :D:cool:
 
Never walk round with the 90mm mounted. Change to it when the situation requires, then change back to the 35 or 50 after.
 
Well you could just change the lens and, if necessary, ask the couple to kiss again.

Personally I'd just keep walking and remember that if I wanted to take photos of kissing couples I could always become a wedding photographer. :)
 
i can't believe i am the first one to choose the last option :)))

What's wrong with you, dudes?

PS: i would first shoot with the 90, then swap lenses and shoot again, and only then ask the guy :)
 
Anyway I assume this applies to any situation you get caught in with the wrong lens. Take the shot with the 90 and learn to never mount such a long lens on the street ever again.
 
"The bus driver never saw him"
That's why it's called the photo of your life! :D


Seriously, I'd try option 2, I've got a screw mount!
 
That's the reason why I work with one lens at a time, there's no room for such a question in my mind ! ;)
 
nbphoto said:
Never walk round with the 90mm mounted. Change to it when the situation requires, then change back to the 35 or 50 after.
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That's probably the way I would use a 90mm, if I had one. I would never keep that lens on for long, unless I was immersed in a specific scene that I had chosen it for. And then I probably wouldn't have noticed the couple kissing anyway.

Now, if for some reason this situation still would have occured, I would have grabbed one shot with the 90mm, possibly even risking falling in someone's lap if I backed up. After that, I would switch lenses and hope for a second shot.
 
If I were walking out for a street shoot I would only carry the two lenses and it would take about 3 seconds to pull it out of my pocket and mount it on (dual rear lens caps rock!).

I was thinking of the step back but as it's was squashed (instead of me), I'd go with the switch.

B2 (;->
 
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