have you ever looked at a spectacular landscape photo or something and
wondered what the photographer was able to pull out of his or her bag of tricks
to make it look so much more dramatic than the shots you take on your
smartphone although there are plenty of techniques that you can use to make your
shot memorable investing in a good wide angle lens would be near the top of the
list but what makes a wide angle lens special and what can you do with them
other than take close-up videos of animals or better yet animals wearing
hats let's start with a quick lesson whether a lens is considered wide angle
or not depends on its focal length which is just the distance between the point
in space where your lens focuses incoming light and the digital sensor in
your camera that actually captures the image if that 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 you're not careful all
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