What made you miss more potential keepers?

[stephanmiller]

1. You didn't have the right focal length on you

2. You had the right focal length but the lens did not offer the right rendering / quality / aperture

I'm pretty sure that we all miss more strong images because of other factors. But between the ones above, which one do you regret most often?

 

[Another Johnson]

I know this is a four + year old thread.

It was either Ansel Adams or Edward Steichen who said that owning more than one lens guaranteed that you would have the wrong one mounted.

Paraphrasing Sam Abel, his advice was to choose a lens in the range from a modest wide angle to a short telephoto.

A common theme was to try to make a photograph that could arguably have been seen at the event by someone in the vicinity as their more or less normal view.

Sam was particularly patient. He would stalk a photo at a particular background, waiting for the perfect dramatic light to coincide with the perfect alignment of subject(s). Steichen and Adams had a similar mindset.