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Digital Camera World
Digital Camera World
Benedict Brain

One lens & zero expectations: I rediscovered my love for photography by finally taking this one bit of advice I had been giving my students for years!

Black & white image of a road leading through a barren mountainous landscape.

I switched to one lens and zero expectations on a travel assignment. My pictures haven't been this honest in years.

I have a confession. For years, I've been telling readers and workshop attendees to shoot with a single prime lens. Learn to see at one focal length, I'd say. Use your feet, not your zoom. Understand what 35mm or 50mm actually looks like before you start accumulating glass. Sound advice, I thought. But in all honesty, I wasn't really doing it myself.

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