Focal Lengths

Different lenses have different focal lengths. Different focal lengths can be put into different catagories i.e Fish-Eye, Wide-Angle, Telephoto etc. A Wide-Angle lens on a typical 35mm camera will be 35mm and under whereas a telephoto can be upwards of 85mm. Around 50mm tends to be standard for a 35mm camera. If you are using a camera with a bigger sensor or film-plane i.e a medium format camera, then the catagories come under different numbers due to the bigger sensor/film-plane

For part of the Unit 01/Systems & Processes brief we had to take photographs of an object using both wide-angle and telephoto lenses or focal lengths. Below are my photographs.

Above are my first two images. The top one was taken at wide-angle focal length and the bottom at telephoto. Depending on what you want to include in the image depends on which image is better. Personally I think that the second picture is better as you know exactly what you are looking at due to the telephoto focal length.

These are my other two images. With these two images I don't think it makes much difference which lens is used the window is the obvious focal point in each of the photographs. Personally I cant decide my favorite out of these two.


With my final two images it again depends on what you want the focal point to be. With the first one you would say the garage but second one; the wall/graffiti. My personal favorite is the second one due to the 'geometricness' to the image made by the lines in the wall etc.