Recently I switched my focal length, I'm now using a 35mm focal length (Fujifilm 23mm F2 lens) and my photos are looking a little different. Before I go any further I want to make it clear that I will still be using my trusty 56mm, the 23mm lens is going to great when there is a lot of sunlight and I’m looking for negative space. What I have noticed in my photos when using the 23mm is all the negative space I end up with, so I’ve started to feel this negative space with the sky if it’s blue with just a few clouds or a building, I like the way this makes the people on the streets look bigger than the buildings and in some cases it makes them look small.
You will start to notice a lot of these photos from me over the coming year. I’m going to try and put just one person in these photos and leave a lot of space around them, I like the idea of putting people on the bottom of the photo, the photo below shows this:
Framing people this way makes the buildings look menacing and in a way it reminds me of the landscape photos of Ansel Adams, I loved the way he photographed the mountains using monochrome film with a red filter, this makes the blue in the sky turn black and in turn, it highlights, well the highlights.
In my photos I love the way the buildings and even the sky tower over the city and the people on the streets, this also allows me to showcase the architecture of the cities, this works really well when I’m in Cambridge or the old parts of London like Kings Cross and Kings Cross St Pancras or Borough market, both buildings have amazing roofs.
