Same View. Different Lens.
As I was editing more photos from last week’s kitchen fire in Blendon Township I ran across these two photos and was troubled as I tried to decide which one was the better photo.
They are essentially the same photo of firefighters stacking hoses during cleanup. Both photos communicate the same idea but in a slightly different way.
The top photo was made with a short telephoto to compress the distance to the ladder truck in the background. The foreground is almost the same as the photo below, made with a wide-angle lens.
I’m not sure that one photo is much better than the other. Both have good action and the lighting is cross-light giving both photos depth. Neither has distracting elements to draw interest away from the primary subjects.
I decided the top photo would be the one to publish only because the face of the firefighter in the middle is less obscured.
Lens choice isn’t very important in this case.
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