From the course: Landscape Photography: Wide-Angle Lenses
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- It's very common that the first lens that a landscape or architectural photographer gets to play with that really blows their mind is a wide-angle lens, and I totally agree. The first time I looked through one, I couldn't believe it. But the key is that we don't want to just point at the world and see everything at wide-angle and snap away. There are some real strategies and tools we want to embrace, and I'm hoping that throughout this course you're able to really focus on those things, like picking a very strong foreground, having a relationship between the foreground and the background, and really establishing depth and a clear path throughout. I really want you to think about what's in the frame. Is everything in there necessary? Does this grand landscape work? Is there something in there distracting? Maybe I need to use a different lens. So the wide-angle lens, on the one hand, is this see-all, amazing perspective lens. On the other hand, it's something that takes skill to use…
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