From the course: Exploring Photography: Finding the Perfect Portrait Lens

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Using a wide-angle lens

Using a wide-angle lens

All right. Well now, we're going to have some fun capturing some photographs. And we're going to start off with our first focal length lens, and that is wide angle. We'll be working with a 16 to 35 millimeter lens. Now you may be thinking, well why would you want to capture a portrait with a lens like this? Because typically, wide angle lenses are for landscape work, because you can capture this wide open perspective of the landscape. And it gives you this exaggerated perspective, so that things in the background seem small. Things in the foreground seem big. And it just really opens up the whole frame. Well often, this isn't thought of as a traditional portrait lens, but you can use it in some interesting ways if you understand how it works. It will create some distortion and some exaggeration if you use it incorrectly, but you can also find a sweet spot for the lens. And you know, a lot of the greatest portraits of all time, those environmental portraits that we know, were captured…

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