Portraiture, a bit more environmental

Two days ago, my fourth photo since mid January was ‘favorited’ on Flickr. And by the way, three of them were in black & white, like this one as well:

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Zuleikha

It’s one of my favourite photos since this year as well. I took it with the 25mm lens on my E-M10 camera, but I’m about to explore wide angle a bit more. It’s more contextual, shows the person of interest *and* the surrounding, which might be a bit more interesting than the usual blow-away-all-background stuff when using so-called ‘portrait lenses’ wide open. It’s also much more difficult.

Here are two I took today, using the 14mm lens on my E-PL5 camera instead:

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“Where is the country on a Cent coin?”

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Low key piano practice

This is fun – I think I’ll keep at it for a while. And used like this, all of a sudden my 14mm lens (with a viewing angle like 28mm on film cameras) doesn’t seem that wide anymore. Let’s see if I can “frame” this focal length in my mind, without camera if I just practise it a bit.

Thanks for reading.