pikkabbu wrote:A good tele photo remains a good telephoto.
And Simplephotography's 1st one is good thanks to these two interesting men.
First of all: those two you posted here are fantastic street images. Love 'em!
Now, I also like that first one I posted, and it's probably better than the second one, but the second one is more dynamic.
Let me show you another one that I took with a wide angle lens, but not up close. This is something you can never accomplish with a telephoto lens:
Well, to go short: I like telephoto, but after some time, you've seen every type of head, every beautiful woman, and you get bored. At least I did.
Then try expressive photography with wide angle lenses
For me personally, the following goes:
Telephoto is good if I want to make a street portrait, or interaction between two, maximum three people, with emphasis on the upper parts of their bodies.
Wide angle is absolutely needed if I want to show a situation, or people doing something, or to bring a lot of depth in my image. Telephoto will compress the depth in an image, while wide angles show a lot of depth.
Consequently, you need interesting backgrounds, also because your DOF will be a lot wider as well. Your subject has to stand out in another way then being the only thing in focus. I mostly try to do that by putting it in the foreground.
Moreover, I find street photography with a wide angle lens much more difficult.
With a telephoto lens, you make sure that your subject is in focus and that your background is blurred.
With a wide angle lens, you have a foreground, a space where your subject is, and a background! So I try to either put my subject IN the foreground, OR I try to create an interesting foreground, then my subject, and minimize the background, OR make sure it's interesting.
Interesting foreground (at least to my taste ), subjects in the middle, relatively simple background:
Subject in the foreground:
Make the foreground interesting, subject in the middle: