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Originally Posted by wulf
Above all, practise. You might want to add a constraint, such as "for this session I will only use my new lens and set at the widest possible angle". As you force yourself to stick to a narrow set of parameters, your creativity gets squeezed but then refined. As another example, drawing on the discussion above, you might set out to deliberately take a series of pictures each of which is wide angle with a strong foreground point of interest.
Wulf
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I've been reading
Within the frame : the journey of photographic vision and the author has a section on going wide. So when
my family and I went to the India Festival (in Columbus, Ohio), I tried very hard to shoot wide with my 18-55mm kit lens. Here are my two favorite results of that day:
18mm: kids trying a variety of new Indian food
18mm: shopping in mounds of clothes
I too found my self forced to think of things in new ways as I went looking for interesting wide angle shots. I'd become too accustomed to my "long lens envy" and this exercise helped me to question the "more zoom=better pictures" equation in my head.