Project 13: A Standard View
For this exercise I concentrated on shooting with one focal length. I set the focal length on my camera to approximately 50mm as this represents what is thought to be a "standard view".
All the images were taken while I was out and about in London. I experimented with taking photographs both inside and outside. A few of the images produced are shown below:
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| 2019; Customer in a Cafe. |
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| 2020; Street Scene. |
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| 2021; Street Scene. |
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| 2023; Woman Walking in an Alley. |
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| 2025; Window Shopper. |
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| 2028; Customers at a Cafe in Somerset House. |
Shooting with a 50mm focal length requires the photographer to move more to position the subject in the frame. Careful framing is required to eliminate extraneous detail. It is difficult to get in-close to the isolate the subject. Often when shooting a street scene, traffic will intrude into the shot unless the photograph is taken from a very close distance.
Using a fixed focal length is not necessarily more difficult than using a zoom lens, but it requires the photographer to think more carefully about his/her position relative to the subject. More creative framing is required to ensure that the resulting image retains some simplicity and has impact.
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