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Understanding how wide-angle lenses distort

Understanding how wide-angle lenses distort

From the course: Landscape Photography: Wide-Angle Lenses

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Understanding how wide-angle lenses distort

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- Wide-angle lenses have a very interesting effect on straight lines. What they end up doing, vertical lines, is they converge, and you completely change the angle of those lines. And this can be a negative. For example, if you're doing architectural work and you're trying to make a realistic interpretation of the building, and that's why tilt-shift lenses have become very important for that. But what if you're goal is to embrace the convergence and make an artistic image? And this is a prime example. This is my favorite way to illustrate this point, is go into any forest and look straight up, and you're going to see what you'd imagine. You're going to see trees looking up, and the sky behind it. Now take out your camera, put your wide-angle lens on, go as wide as you can, and then point it up at the sky, and all those straight trees will converge into one single point. This was taken in Colorado at the peak of fall color, and you're looking at aspens, and straight up. And look at all…

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