{"id":9603,"date":"2014-01-23T16:30:25","date_gmt":"2014-01-23T16:30:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/?p=9603"},"modified":"2014-01-23T16:33:28","modified_gmt":"2014-01-23T16:33:28","slug":"perspective-cropping%e2%80%a6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/?p=9603","title":{"rendered":"Perspective & cropping\u2026."},"content":{"rendered":"

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On my desk I have a Shure Model 55 microphone, it’s a long story! \u00a0 I \u00a0love music and my choice in music is all over the board. \u00a0One thing most of \u00a0my early favorite artists have in common is they sang into a Shure 55! \u00a0Sinatra, Nat King Cole, Tony Bennett, Elvis, well you get it, this mike is a symbol of an entire era of music!<\/p>\n

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It’s also a test target for me, sitting at my desk trying out different lenses I often photograph it. Today I decided to shoot \u00a0with the Fuji X-Pro 1 and three different lenses; the 35mm f 1.4, the 60mm Micro f 2.4 and the 55-200 f 3.5-4.6. \u00a0I tried to make the size of the mike somewhat similar in each image, and by increasing the focal length using more distance and narrowing the angle of view to show less and less background. \u00a0Here are the other two shots.<\/p>\n

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60mm Micro f 2.4 @ ISO 1600<\/strong><\/p>\n

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55-200 \u00a0ISO 3200 f 4.8<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The point of the exercise is to demonstrate how the subject to background relationship changes as the focal length of the lens increases. \u00a0It is one of our bags of tricks as a photographer that we can eliminate or reduce background by narrowing the angle of view with a longer lens. \u00a0The background in these shots was my computer desktop. \u00a0By positioning the camera to control what colors on the desktop are included, you can further plan the outcome. \u00a0This is one reason why interchangeable lens cameras can increase your options in how you capture your subject, changing focal lengths!!!<\/p>\n

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Blessings<\/p>\n

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the pilgrim<\/p>\n

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  On my desk I have a Shure Model 55 microphone, it’s a long story! \u00a0 I \u00a0love music and my choice in music is all over the board. \u00a0One thing most of \u00a0my early favorite artists have in common is they sang into a Shure 55! \u00a0Sinatra, Nat King Cole, Tony Bennett, Elvis, well […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chronicles"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9603"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9603\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9616,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9603\/revisions\/9616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}