Three Dimensions, Not 3D
I was photographing in Switzerland. The danger there is that everything in the Swiss landscape is so “pretty” that you feel that you are photographing the inside of a box of candy. The landscape is that “sweet.”
When faced with that, I have one of two reactions: pack it up, I can’t get anything I want; or try to see a piece of it, to find a detail that is a microcosm of the whole. When I do the latter, one of the things I try to do is play with focus. If you think about this, you can’t do it with a rangefinder camera with any degree of accuracy as to what you’re getting.
Early on in my shooting, I established to myself that I could only work with a single-lens reflex (where your view is through the lens, rather than from ...
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