![]() I wanted the feel of the people coming at me. This image (above) was shot from the hip (literally) as I crossed the street in NYC. This will give your image layers of depth and make people want to look at it closer, to really explore what’s going on in your photographs. Try and get a subject really close to your lens, something else a medium distance away, and the background even farther. In order to make your shots more interesting, have more depth and perspective – you have to get closer. That may seem intimidating, but you can’t be anonymous or invisible when you’re shooting wide. I’m mere inches from the front tire in the second shot. By getting even closer the bike is made more of the focus in the image. In the one on the left nothing really stands out in the image. Now, look at the two images of the bike below. Notice how the tractor comes to life when it’s larger in the frame. Compare to the images of the tractor above, especially the wide angle one. There is a lack of subject here because all the elements are the same distance from the camera. Most of my favorite wide angle shots were taken within inches of the subject right in the action. ![]() So to use a wide angle correctly, to its advantage, you need to have something close to the lens. Notice that they are designed to distort and stretch perspective. Read the description of what a wide angle lens does (above) one more time. Everything in your image is equal distance from the lens Let’s look at the five mistakes beginners make using a wide angle and how you can correct each of them for more powerful images. Lets get started! 5 Mistakes Beginners Make With Wide Angle Lenses So how DO YOU get the WOW wide angle photos? Knowing when and how to use a wide angle lens is the key to creating successful images that draw your viewers in, making photos that get the “wow” response you seek. The only things that changed were the lens I used, and the subject to camera distance. See how the size relationship has changed in the second image? The tractor did not move from one shot to the other, nor did the distance between them change. Notice how large the tractor looks compared to the grain elevator. Look at the size of the tractor in the two images. 17mm lens on a full frame camera (to get this angle of view you need to use an 11mm on APS-C) 75mm lens on full frame (a 50mm lens on an APS-C camera will give you approximately the same angle of view). Let’s compare the images below taken with a wide and long lens respectively. You feel like you’re more part of the scene, in the image, than those shot with longer telephoto lenses. Learn to use this to your advantage when shooting with a wide lens.Īdding depth and a sense of inclusion also occurs when using a wide angle lens. Buildings come to a peak as you look up, railway tracks disappear into the distance quickly, and so on. Same with the image of the Brooklyn Bridge (top) and the buildings in the images below.Īny subject with straight lines will appear to converge faster than the eye perceives normally. Look at the image of the subway sign above notice how much larger the end closest to the camera appears compared to the end farther away. What that means is that objects closer to the camera appear larger than ones farther away, even if they are the same size in reality. Wide angle lenses distort things and enhance perspective. If you go any wider than that it’s considered a fish-eye lens and the image becomes almost round or even a full circle. The smaller the number for focal length, the wider it will be, such as 15mm which is super wide (full frame) or 10mm (specialty lens made for APS-C cameras only). So anything wider than 50mm (full frame) or 35mm (APS-C) is considered a wide angle lens. Now with digital it’s a bit more complicated – 50mm is considered normal for full frame cameras, which equates to about 35mm for APS-C or cropped sensors (to have the same field of view). ![]() Technically it is any lens that has a wider field of view than what the human eye sees.īack in the days of film a 50mm lens was considered “normal” because it is closest to what you see with your eye normally. Let’s start by defining what is wide angle anyway.
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