First of all, Steve was hosted on a Youtube.com livestream today by Vahagraphy, and it was a great presentation. If you didn't get to watch it, here is a link. Well, it's also a link to it even if you did get to watch it.
During the livestream, Steve offered a point about teleconverter (TC) use and how many photograpers use them outside of their best method of use . Instead of using a TC to increase the size of a subject that is very small in the frame a bit so that the amount of cropping is decreased but still significant, Steve talked about using TCs to completely fill the frame with a subject that was already significant in the viewfinder and how that is the best use of TCs.
I hadn't really thought about that before, but now that I do, I have to agree with him on this point. (Like on nearly every other subject he discusses. Don't most of us?) I think back on some of the shots where I had a TC connected to my camera and lens and the times where I needed to back away from the subject produced much better photos than the ones where I still needed to get much closer to the subject. In other words, a TC won't rescue a bad shot most of the time, but can help improve some of them in the right conditions. This changes how I plan to primarily use TCs from now on.
During the livestream, Steve offered a point about teleconverter (TC) use and how many photograpers use them outside of their best method of use . Instead of using a TC to increase the size of a subject that is very small in the frame a bit so that the amount of cropping is decreased but still significant, Steve talked about using TCs to completely fill the frame with a subject that was already significant in the viewfinder and how that is the best use of TCs.
I hadn't really thought about that before, but now that I do, I have to agree with him on this point. (Like on nearly every other subject he discusses. Don't most of us?) I think back on some of the shots where I had a TC connected to my camera and lens and the times where I needed to back away from the subject produced much better photos than the ones where I still needed to get much closer to the subject. In other words, a TC won't rescue a bad shot most of the time, but can help improve some of them in the right conditions. This changes how I plan to primarily use TCs from now on.