Stop down! I want to see everything in focus!

[Sparrow]

I take a more Avant-garde line with wide angle stuff

 

[Krzys]

Haha brilliant. Absolutely brilliant! The shot looks almost normal and uninteresting aside from the distortion but I cannot stop staring into it and looking around the strange world.

 

[Sparrow]

Polarisers can do that other-world look

 

[Sparrow]

thanks, I don't know the song?

 

[SimonSawSunlight]

yes, there are other ways than a shallow dof to isolate a subject!
I love it.

 

[snausages]

Cool thread, lots of great pics.

It's a tough assignment for close-up portraiture obviously because of the distortion.

 

[Sparrow]

I'll have posted this before

 

[ampguy]

 

[Krzys]

Remember folks this doesn't have to be a wide angle photo thread! Extra points if you show a portrait taken with a lens longer than 50mm with great depth of field from the foreground to background.

 

[ampguy]

M8, 75 lux:

 

[Krzys]

Hmmmm not close enough!

 

[sleepyhead]

In bright light, you don't need an ultrawide to get great depth of field, obviously.
This shot was taken with a 35mm lens:

But this with a 17mm:

And finally, a 28mm lens:

 

[enochRoot]

 

[maggieo]

Dan's Apartment, Minneapolis, 1985

 

[Sparrow]

that's a cv 50 f2.5 iirc

 

[Sparrow]

and a 75mm one

 

[splitimageview]

I have been thinking...

I always seem to try hard to blur the background and isolate foreground subjects in portraits and such...now I want to do the opposite. Shoot wide angle lenses with maximum depth of field and specifically aim to create a photo has both pleasing foreground and background elements...all in focus.

This is interesting, as I was walking my dogs yesterday and thinking exactly the same thing, shooting more scenes that do not have the subject separated using OOF blur...thinking of carrying a 28mm on a Barnack, preset focus.

 

[Sparrow]

And a 35 in poor light

 

[Juan Valdenebro]

Simon,

Very beautiful first shot!

Cheers,

Juan

 

[aizan]

some of lee friedlander's family photos and bill brandt's nudes are along those lines.