Michael Freeman: Wide-angle Involvement vs Telephoto Coolness

Lens focal length has personality. It brings a certain character, a feeling, to a shot. Wide-angles draw in the viewer and put him/her in the middle of the scene or action, while telephotos create a certain distance, more objective and less involving. But only if you use them in certain ways. There was a time [...]

Michael Freeman: Shallow focus, deep focus?

Focus is, well, the most completely basic act and fact of photography. You focus on a subject, it becomes sharp and so perfectly visible and….that’s it! End of story, the image is sharp. That’s what cameras do, isn’t it? The most straightforward approach is to get the important thing that you’re shooting sharply focused, and [...]