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Using a wide-angle lens

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Using a wide-angle lens

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So some friends here in San Francisco are throwing a house concert. We've got in someone's house and reshaped it into a concert space. We moved some furniture around, we've got a nice little performance space, we have a great crowd of fun people who have shown up to watch the show, and we've got two great performers, a singer-songwriter named Larry Gallagher and a poet named George Bilgere. Even if you think you don't like poetry, George's poems are really a lot of fun. So we've got this wonderful event here of an evening on a Saturday night, and I want to shoot it. Now, I'm thinking predominantly, probably the lens I'm going to be working with, and this may come as a surprise is an ultra-wide angle. A lot of people think ultra-wide angle? But that's for shooting the Grand Canyon, that's for shooting Monument Valley, because those are big wide spaces. That type of lens doesn't work too well there. It's much better in a smaller space like this. What a wide-angle lens is going to give…

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