A notorious website (which address I won’t mention) recently blamed a new cinema lens (which I also won’t name) for being almost unusable outside the centre of the f...
30 December, 2025
The Discipline of One Lens
Life is too easy for photographers these days! We have wide-ranging, versatile zoom lenses. Those folk using phones also have a choice of focal lengths on many models. Now I usu...
If someone handed you two high end cameras — a rangefinder and an SLR — which would you pick up first? Which would you end up sticking with as your ‘when in...
13 October, 2025
Wider Isn’t Always Better
A lot of people love wide angle lenses from Garry Winogrand, known for his street photography made with a 28mm lens to Alex Webb, who favors 28 and 35mm lenses to Magnum photogr...
25 September, 2025
Day Out at The NPG – Part 3 – 85mm Lens – One Shot Story
In Part 1 I relayed a conversation I had had with our Tutor Eddie. On his assertion that no-one shoots with an 85mm lens these days and all portrait photography is shot using wi...
10 September, 2025
Wider Than Wide-Angle – 15mm for Documentary Photography
I recently wrote about my use of 21mm, a lens I had used some years ago and returned to out of necessity when, while working a specific situation, my standard wide angle was not...
Telephoto lenses create such a literal and metaphorical distance between the photographer and their environment. Although one of my favourite lenses to work with is a 90mm, I re...
21 November, 2024
Memorable photos made with forgettable lenses
Well, memorable for me anyway – your mileage may vary. Some of the images I’m sharing here made good money for me a few years ago when I had a side hustle in stock photography, ...