{"video_id":"PSBfPqw-Uoc","title":"Wide Angle Lenses as Fast As Possible","channel":"Techquickie","show":"Techquickie","published_at":"2015-05-07T14:58:16Z","duration_s":307,"segments":[{"start_s":0.16,"end_s":5.839,"text":"have you ever looked at a spectacular landscape photo or something and","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":4.08,"end_s":10.679,"text":"wondered what the photographer was able to pull out of his or her bag of tricks","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":8.599,"end_s":14.4,"text":"to make it look so much more dramatic than the shots you take on your","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":12.08,"end_s":18.8,"text":"smartphone although there are plenty of techniques that you can use to make your","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":16.16,"end_s":22.92,"text":"shot memorable investing in a good wide angle lens would be near the top of the","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":20.6,"end_s":26.24,"text":"list but what makes a wide angle lens 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distance is less than the standard 35 mm then you can refer to the lens as wide angle well lus thank you for sharing your obviously vast knowledge of physics with us the unwashed masses but I'm actually no closer to understand understanding this uh yeah you're right I should probably clarify focal length matters because it defines how much of your surroundings can actually be photographed in a given shot for example wideangle lenses with a very small focal length let's say 15 mm bend light more strongly than ordinary lenses which puts everything that your camera sees into Focus very quickly exactly the opposite of telephoto lenses which can only focus on smaller parts of a scene but a short focal length allows the lens to capture up to 180° of a scene if you're willing to put up with that distorted fisheye effect producing very dramatic looking glimpses of everything from vast mountain ranges to cityscapes to grandio indoor spaces like Vegas casinos but let's say you're interested in something else other than just taking pictures of Landscapes what else can you do with a wide angle lens well let's suppose you want to capture a close-up thought of something but set it against a cool background wide angle lenses are great for making small close by objects look huge so we can see a lot of their details while making far away objects look very small and very far away indeed and they do all of this while keeping all of it in reasonably sharp Focus so a wide- angle lens is a great option if you want to include details of both the foreground and background in your composition or if you just want to make a picture of a bowl of fruit or something look super dramatic but photos of small objects aren't the only things W angle lenses excel at either they're also great for pictures of big stuff in small spaces photos of hotel rooms on travel sites are often taken with wide-angle lenses to make them look more spacious than they really are there are even wide-angle webcams as well as lenses that you can stick on your cell phone so you don't have to smush faces with your friend whenever you want to take a super awesome selfie and if any of those sound good to you or if you just need another lens in your photography Arsenal to experiment with keep in mind that because wideangle lenses bend light differently than traditional lenses they can also present some special challenges for example if you aim your camera too high or too low either the top or bottom half of your shot is going to look weirdly stretched or distorted so unless you want your photos to come out looking like a Salvador Dolly painting try to keep things level and because they capture so much of your surroundings wide angle lenses aren't good for zooming in on Far Away objects or shots where you want some realistic blurriness in the background so the long and short of it is remember to be cautious like all photography tools wideangle lenses can produce amazing results in the hands of an expert but if 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