Lenses and Focal Length. After having surfed through several issues of The Art of Photography, Nuts & Bolts as well as the Films & Accessories sections of this CMM photography website, there are bound to be questions asked. Some of the Canon camera users and other photo enthusiasts out there may have some doubts about the styles of photography that have been provided here are of no significant importance. Those who may argue about the fundamentals being described here so far may not seem to teach them "anything much" about the techniques of creating better pictures at a glance. I don't blame them for thinking about the fundamentals described this way. Let me explain. When I first took my professional photography course in New York nearly fifteen years ago, even I personally have some doubts of whatever that is my instructors have taught me during the first few lessons of my course. Are those few lessons really part of the trade secrets of professional photography used daily by professionals around the world? Those first few lessons are nothing more than understanding the fundamentals of photography all over again - something which I have learnt by myself through the various books and magazines on photography years earlier, like most photo enthusiasts. The differences between what I have learnt in my first few lessons and the techniques from the books and magazines were: My photographic lessons have showed me the RIGHT way towards creating better pictures while the books and magazines only provided something like 1001 samples of potential subject matters to be photographed and some techniques on achieving the desired results. Photographic books and magazines can give photo enthusiasts thousands of sample pictures of beautiful and well-photographed subjects but most of them fail to teach the aspiring enthusiasts the most valuable tip of professional photography -- the ability to visualize and how to "see" the subjects just before clicking the camera's shutter. Most of you may have also noticed that I do not list down the technical shooting data to accompany all the pictures illustrated in the first two issues of The Art of Photography except for the articles in the Films & Accessories section. Listing the type of film, film speed, camera, lenses, f-stops and the shutter speeds used like those pictures as published in the books and magazines are only providing the photo enthusiasts what types of equipment that were used, not the shooting techniques required to create similar pictures as shown. I prefer to let the enthusiasts ask themselves on how each picture was shot, based on the fundamentals described. << Back to Main . 1 . 2 . 3 . 4 . 5 . 6 . 7 . 8 . 9 .