The Photographer's Eye: Graphic Guide

PART 6

OPTICS

Optics are not only what make photography possible, they also give images some unique characteristics not normally found in other media. If you want to indulge an obsession for equipment, I’d suggest that you’re always better off lavishing attention on the lenses, because their style and quality deeply affect the image. Deep, in fact, is one of the first things that comes to mind with a camera lens, because the aperture is responsible for the sense of how far the viewer is allowed to see into the scene. The opposite, shallow, is possibly even more special, because a gradient of focus, from sharp to blurred, is a purely photographic ...