Nicely done - I told you you'd like that 21/4. Interesting that you shot all of these in portrait orientation - was that by design?
Yeah, I'm loving it. Thanks.
Shooting them all vertically was inspired by this photo from a Japanese photographer (I forget his name but he's famous for his photos of burn victims of the atomic bomb in Hiroshima). It was a street shot, vertical, with the subject in the foreground and the street receding in the background distance. I was really taken with that photo. I don't recall having seen anything quite like it. Then when I did my first tests with the 21, I realized that with a vertical orientation I got as much breadth coverage as a normal horizontal orientation with my 40mm. So it became a matter of exploiting that extra top and bottom space, seeing what I can do with it and making it relate in interesting ways to a central subject, or placing that subject in that top or bottom space. Anyway, lots still to explore with the vertical orientation and the 21. It can appear fairly normal, as with the motoconcho portrait; or kind of subtly bizarre in different ways, like the second and last pics.
