

I remember being able to ride a bike with training wheels without any issues….until my parents pulled out those training wheels. The fact that you can’t really Bokeh your way out of any situation is actually a good thing. When you use a 28mm, it’s as much about the subject that you are shooting, as it is their background, their surrounding, their context. I don’t know about you, but I want as much of the world that I can get. Imagine a completely black room, your only contact with the world is trough a small window and a large one. Longer focal lengths really limit your field of view in my opinion. Here I try to address the big problems of 28mms….Consider these counter points to the above. The big issues with the 28mm are: it’s hard(er) to balance, you can’t blur your way out of situations and it forces you to get closer. In a nutshell, you will probably have to get real close to your subjects with a 28mm. But if I had a 50mm, I would have needed to be as close and I would get a similar image. Closer than you would if you had a longer lens. All of this to say, if you want something to be prominent in your 28mm frame, you have to get close. So if you have an image of a woman taken with a 50mm, she might appear as big as a thumb, but if you didn’t move and made the same image with a 28mm, she might now be the size of half a thumb. In the 28mm field of view, you can cram more of the world into the image because things appear smaller with a 28mm. Macro is another matter though… 3) You have to get close Most have an apsc sensor camera with a 28mm 2.8 or 2.5, so the Bokeh isn’t that great.
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It’s another matter when you have a 28mm 1.4 or 1.8 on a Full Frame sensor, the Bokeh is way better, see Christophe Debon’s work in issue 2, but it won’t be as creamy as a 50mm 1.4 for example. All that to mean, you will have to find other ways to bring attention to your subject besides blurring out the background.

While the background is out of focus, everything is still pretty much defined. Here’s a 28mm shot at 2.5 on an APSC sensor: You can’t completely pull out your subject from their background with Bokeh on a 28mm (for most cameras). The 28mm can Bokeh, just not as much as most people want it to. The woman is crisp, the background isn’t, so she pops. There would be no problem for images like this: It’s the easy way to make your subject pop and it’s pretty much a surefire way to bring attention to your subject. 2) No Bokeh superpowersīokeh is the out of focus area. The guy in the back, the person in the back, the guy on the right, cars, lines, glip! It’s a major turn off for many. Now there’s much, much more I have to worry about. I only have the guy in the back to worry about. Say I have a telephoto in hand, how hard is this to balance: Harder isn’t it? Well the 28mm is like that, since you can cram more of the world in it, you have to take more things into consideration when framing. If you can imagine yourself for a moment juggling 3 balls.

The 28mm causes problems to many people for a variety of reasons: 1) It’s harder to balance Knowing that, what’s the big issue with the 28mm? Now we can cram more of the world in the frame, no? I can fit the car, the truck, even the surrounding buildings into my frame. I was able to get the bike, a bit of a truck on the left and a part car on the right, right? Here’s a 28mm shot: It basically means that you can cram more into your image than a longer lens like 50mm. A 28mm lens is considered a wide angle lens.
