Project: medium telephoto - learning outcomes

I especially enjoyed this exercise allowed me to be a guilt free 'nosey parker', I used a 75 - 300mm lens in order to take photo's of people from a distance. Whist the lens made it very easy to zoom in to people, the compression made it difficult to scan around the scene without having to look away from the camera, make it quite disorientating to scan solely through the lens. The selection of the subject was important as less inclusion of subject matter in the frame required more precision as there is less to crop out post processing. Using the telephoto lens allowed me to take more intimate images in a less obvious and intrusive way, taking candid images much easier and very comfortably as a result. The location and position chosen to take these photo's was important as it was easy for people to walk into the frame and with the compression of the lens this was hard to anticipate easily.