That’s one of my favorite focal lengths. It’s a standard portrait length, and in my experience the best for replicating a human view on a landscape.
SandpaperTeddyBear
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That’s one of my favorite focal lengths. It’s a standard portrait length, and in my experience the best for replicating a human view on a landscape.
This isn’t a particularly good photo, but the spot does have some potential if I ever care to be up there when the light is nice: https://imgur.com/a/meBXBAT. I shot that with the 80 mm equivalent lens on my phone to capture “here’s what this spot looked like to me in the moment.”
50 is generally considered “normal,” and I think that’s more-or-less correct for within 20 feet, but I’ve found that I (and as far as I can tell most everyone does this) tend to narrow my perceived field-of-view when I am focusing my eyes at infinity.
From a photography standpoint what this generally means to me is that the things that correspond to “that’s pretty, I should take a picture of it” frame nicely at ~80 mm focal length. When I’m trying to capture something best captured at wide angles I need to fuss with foreground elements for composition, and I know it won’t feel like an eyewitness shot.