From the course: Landscape Photography: Wide-Angle Lenses

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Creating images with a strong foreground using wide-angle lenses

Creating images with a strong foreground using wide-angle lenses

From the course: Landscape Photography: Wide-Angle Lenses

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Creating images with a strong foreground using wide-angle lenses

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- I'm going to walk you through a typical exchange I have with a client who's really trying to get better at shooting with a wide angle lens. Say, "What could I be doing to improve this shot?" And I'll say, "Get closer to the foreground" and I'll come back a minute later and go, "Well now what?" and I'll say, "Get closer to the foreground." And this happens four or five times before they actually really get close. The beauty of a wide angle lens is the way it accentuates and distorts the foreground to make it so dominant in the frame and if you find a foreground that's fascinating to be able to emphasize it in such a way as to really dominate the image, is such a cool feature, and it can only be done with a wide angle lens. So, I'm serious about getting close. I mean, we're talking inches in certain examples. Let's take a look at this, this is something where I call Finger Falls, where the water is coming over the rock and these beautiful fingers and my lens is literally four inches…

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