From the course: Landscape Photography: Wide-Angle Lenses
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Creating a grand landscape image with a wide-angle lens
From the course: Landscape Photography: Wide-Angle Lenses
Creating a grand landscape image with a wide-angle lens
- As a landscape photographer, I'll never forget the first time I looked through a wide angle lens. It truly is an eye opening experience. The world is most often viewed through 35 to 40 mil, that's how we see. And then all of the sudden you're at 16 millimeter and everything just opens up. And what often happens with wide angle lenses and landscape photographers, and I think this applies to architectural photographers as well, is you get caught up in including all this information, because you can't fathom how it all fits in this lens. So, it's this incredibly unique and creative tool. But it presents and interesting challenge. And that is one, a lot of people are using it so your images tend to look like a lot of other people's. Which is okay. But if your goal is originality it becomes tough. And two, often times people include way too much in their image. And one of the things I'm most critical about when I'm critiquing my clients is, is it in or is it out? And when you're shooting…
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Overview of wide-angle lens photography1m 17s
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Creating a grand landscape image with a wide-angle lens8m 37s
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Creating images with a strong foreground using wide-angle lenses8m 59s
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Creating a path for the eye by establishing depth7m 54s
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Understanding how wide-angle lenses distort7m 21s
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Using a wide-angle lens at night5m 39s
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Shooting panoramas with a wide-angle lens5m 59s
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