Call this one Telephoto and Wideangle contrasts.
In October I called up to one of my favorite places and made these two views of the GATX slug-set that Pan Am Railways uses to work the East Deefield hump.
During the course of its duties the East Deerfield hump engine routinely pulls cuts of freight cars out onto the Connecticut River Bridge, which makes for ample opportunity to expose photographs.
Sometimes one view doesn’t give you the full picture.
I like the old bridge in this bucolic setting, and this also a great place to picture equipment. I’ve photographed dozens of trains here over years.
One view was exposed with my 12mm Zeiss Touit (wide angle) lens; the other with my Fujinon 90mm telephoto. The wideangle view takes in the scene; the telephoto photo focuses more tightly on the locomotive. By presenting both you get a more complete picture.
In this 12mm wide angle view, notice how the effect of soft sunlight on the bridge helps direct your eye to the locomotive.
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I use a very unusual flat field Zeiss 12mm Tuoit. This doesn’t feature the acute barrel distortion associated with some wide-angle design. And if you keep it level it shouldn’t distort verticals elements in a scene.
That 12mm lens as used as in the first picture above doesn’t give the usual distortion effect. Interesting.
Time to cut some brush