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top: In the narrow ravines of Bryce Canyon in the USA, a wide-angle zoom lens comes into its own: Left: It is the unfocused movements of the water
that turn this photograph into an idyllic still life. Right: A telephoto setting with a large aperture makes people stand out against the action.
Phot
os:
Franz
Bagyi
ground which is then defocused. Or high-
light them against the crowds at a large
event, as the photo of the couple from the
Carnival in Venice clearly shows. This
works equally well with objects in nature:
look how the blurred swathes of water set
the stage for a solitary pine cone on a
mossy stone. Often enough, it is the details
that make a subject interesting: a window
cross, a door handle, a weathered poster, a
person’s hands. It is the selective view of
the longer focal length that captures the
essence of a scene.
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