From: Bill Collins (photo@intrex.net)
Date: 12/18/02-06:49:49 AM Z
I'm sure no two people see in exactly the same way, but you description makes sense for me too. I have recently tried some extreme wide angle landscapes (90mm lens on 5x7) and am finding that the results are very different than what I visualized. With a longer lens, the results are closer to what I expect.
Bill
---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: Philip willarney <pwillarney@yahoo.com>
Reply-to: alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca
Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2002 00:09:44 -0800 (PST)
>Ok, so many messages, maybe someone has already said
>this, but...
>
>I think long focal lengths (lens or pinhole) more
>accurately reproduce how the human eye works when we
>look at a landscape: the combination of our focused
>attention and the physically small sharp spot in our
>field of vision combine to make our (well, my, I
>shouldn't speak for others) almost telescopic in how I
>experience sight. Which is why I think it's so hard
>to take good landscapes; when we look at a big space,
>we zoom our attention in on some aspect of it, and
>even though we see the surrounding context less
>sharply (due to the design of our eye), we think we're
>seeing it all sharply at once. The camera, on the
>other hand, sees everything in the same way, the same
>sharpness, in a landscape.
>
>Dang. I'm not saying this very well, someone help me
>out....
>
>-- pa
>
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