Congregational Church, Lee, Massachusetts (#BK0002)
The image above was shot from the upstairs bedroom window of a house
in Lee, Massachusetts using a 70-300 mm zoom telephoto lens.
By “zooming in” to 300 mm, telephone lines that were strung just
above the image’s field of view, and the roof of the neighbor’s house that
lay just below the framed view could be “cropped out.”
The artifacts of suburbia were eliminated allowing for a more countrified
New England scene. A telephoto lens also serves to compress features within the
landscape. Here, the forested
mountain backdrop is “brought closer” to church and steeple.
A friend once observed that when I photograph churches I tend to have them dwarfed by wild nature. He inquired as to what was the deep psychological significance behind this. My answer is that “I’m not really sure.” I do know that a zoom telephoto lens allows for greater creativity in composing an image by allowing you to zero in on the subjects you want included and cropping out those that you don’t.
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