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have you ever looked at a spectacular landscape photo or something and

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wondered what the photographer was able to pull out of his or her bag of tricks

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to make it look so much more dramatic than the shots you take on your

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smartphone although there are plenty of techniques that you can use to make your

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shot memorable investing in a good wide angle lens would be near the top of the

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list but what makes a wide angle lens special and what can you do with them

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other than take close-up videos of animals or better yet animals wearing

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hats let's start with a quick lesson whether a lens is considered wide angle

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or not depends on its focal length which is just the distance between the point

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in space where your lens focuses incoming light and the digital sensor in

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your camera that actually captures the image if that distance is less than the

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standard 35 mm then you can refer to the lens as wide angle well lus thank you

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for sharing your obviously vast knowledge of physics with us the

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unwashed masses but I'm actually no closer to understand understanding this

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uh yeah you're right I should probably clarify focal length matters because it

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defines how much of your surroundings can actually be photographed in a given

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shot for example wideangle lenses with a very small focal length let's say 15 mm

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bend light more strongly than ordinary lenses which puts everything that your

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camera sees into Focus very quickly

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exactly the opposite of telephoto lenses which can only focus on smaller parts of

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a scene but a short focal length allows the lens to capture up to

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180° of a scene if you're willing to put up with that distorted fisheye effect

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producing very dramatic looking glimpses

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of everything from vast mountain ranges to cityscapes to grandio indoor spaces

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like Vegas casinos but let's say you're interested in something else other than

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just taking pictures of Landscapes what else can you do with a wide angle lens

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well let's suppose you want to capture a close-up thought of something but set it

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against a cool background wide angle lenses are great for making small close

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by objects look huge so we can see a lot of their details while making far away

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objects look very small and very far away indeed and they do all of this

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while keeping all of it in reasonably sharp Focus so a wide- angle lens is a

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great option if you want to include details of both the foreground and

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background in your composition or if you just want to make a picture of a bowl of

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fruit or something look super dramatic but photos of small objects aren't the

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only things W angle lenses excel at either they're also great for pictures

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of big stuff in small spaces photos of

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hotel rooms on travel sites are often taken with wide-angle lenses to make

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them look more spacious than they really are there are even wide-angle webcams as

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well as lenses that you can stick on your cell phone so you don't have to

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smush faces with your friend whenever you want to take a super awesome selfie

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and if any of those sound good to you or if you just need another lens in your

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photography Arsenal to experiment with keep in mind that because wideangle

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lenses bend light differently than traditional lenses they can also present

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some special challenges for example if you aim your camera too high or too low

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either the top or bottom half of your shot is going to look weirdly stretched

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or distorted so unless you want your photos to come out looking like a

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Salvador Dolly painting try to keep things level and because they capture so

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much of your surroundings wide angle lenses aren't good for zooming in on Far

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Away objects or shots where you want some realistic blurriness in the

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background so the long and short of it is remember to be cautious like all

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photography tools wideangle lenses can produce amazing results in the hands of

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an expert but if you're not careful all

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