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To help contextualize this response: The entire opening of the article feels like an extremely heavy handed introduction to "Photography 103 - Focal Length and
by shuntress 5y ago
To help contextualize this response: The entire opening of the article feels like an extremely heavy handed introduction to "Photography 103 - Focal Length and How to Use It" without ever really explaining focal length even while a basic understanding of focal length & "compression" remains relevant to the topic the article veers into.
- Gravityloss 5y agoThey do have a point. It's just "beating around the bush" so much. Focal length, distortion, projection. I guess I'm just too cranky for it.
- shuntress 5y agoI should have been more clear. I'm basically agreeing with you. It feels like the article is constantly about to say something like "Here's an example where I used a 50mm and you can see how much more closely it matches the painting and my recollection" or something like that before then going on to talk about how perspective in photography is essentially a tradeoff with field-of-view. But it... just doesn't do that and so ends up with this awkward feeling mismatch with reader expectation (for me, at least). I don't necessarily begrudge the article for it but I do share your frustration.
- Gravityloss 5y agoYeah, I got that!