Wide angle or telephoto?

Do you know that? You go on a photo walk with one or more photographers and everyone takes photos of things along the way that everyone sees for themselves. And afterwards everyone is actually surprised that everyone photographed something different. Even the same objects are captured differently on the sensor.

Why is that?

In a video on kelbytraining.com, New York photographer Jay Meisel put forward the interesting theory that each of us sees things differently. One person looks with his eyes as if a telephoto lens was screwed in front of his head, the other looks more like a wide angle lens in front of his eye.

I've thought about this theory for a long time and I think I'm taking a broad view. I even think my portrait, which I took with a 600mm focal length, looks kind of wide-angle.

An image taken from 150m away with the equivalent of 600mm focal length and flashes retouched.

How do you see?

Read comments (3)
  1. I can't decide on a point of view yet. Like so many things, I think it depends on your form on the day. Sometimes I can't do anything with a tele(view) and other days I can't do without it.

    Hello
    Nils

  2. Do you mean that some people pay more attention to details, others pay more attention to the big picture?

    Or how do you know how to look?

    1. I don't think it has anything to do with details or the overall picture, but rather with perception. What do you see when you look? And when you see something interesting, how do you photograph it?

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