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From: "Jan Steinman" <Jan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, June 21, 2003 1:27 AM
Subject: [OM] Re: 17mm?
> >From: "Daniel Mitchell" <danmitchell@xxxxxxxx>
> >
> > I've found that I don't have the skill to compose properly with a 17mm --
> >either you go for the tricky shots where the extra field of view really has
> >an effect, but I never think of those, or you just try to fit that extra bit
> >of [whatever] into the picture -- and every time I've tried that, it just
> >makes the subject look really small.
>
> The key to super wide is to have a variety of distances in your image. If
> everything is an equal distance away -- like most
landscapes -- they will simply look tiny.
>
> So look for large foreground objects to balance off of your background. Or
> check out some work of Muench.
>
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