Go 24
I’ve owned a Nikon 24mm f/2.8D for a couple years now, but it rarely finds itself on my camera. It’s just not a focal length I like to be locked into for my shooting style. It makes a very nice and light landscape lens, but, at this time, landscapes aren’t my focus. It’d probably make an interesting street lens too, but, again, not my main genre currently.
I occasionally debate with myself wether I should sell the lens for some extra money. But then convince myself I should hold onto it because it’s the widest focal length I own. Recently I’ve made a deal with myself that I will shoot with it more, so yesterday when my daughter and wife began frosting cupcakes I grabbed the 24 and put it on the camera. It was a pretty impulsive series of pictures and was meant to begin to get a better feel of the 24mm range. It’s not unusual to shoot portrait style photography today at wide focal lengths, but it’s not a practice I’m comfortable with yet. The majority of my photography is done with a 50mm 1.8 and 105mm 2.8VR. On a 24-? zoom with a range of focal lengths, 24mm wouldn’t feel as restricting.
I still need to get a better feel on how features are distorted and lines skewed at 24mm., but below are the results of the cameraman and the bakers. Do you have a lens that typically sits lonely on the shelf seeing little action? Try dusting it off and playing with it. After all, it’s really be about having fun.
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What a wonderful series, Matthew. I can see how the distortion might lead you to not have this lens on the camera too often, but how wonderful to get right in on the action! My mouth was positively salivating by the end of the series (Pavlov much?).
Oh, and I must say that you are getting quite good at telling visual stories.
~Brian