Wide Angle Lens tips?

[Jim Bryant]

Hey we have three photogs in the Seattle area, well, actually I live in Port Orchard over on the Kitsap Peninsula, but worked as a staff photog until the Seattle PI closed its doors in March. I find that my favorite wide angles are the 14mm f2.8 and the 16-35mmf2.8. I try to use high and low angles to make the shots interesting. You're off to a good start.......have fun!

[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

[zappo]

Originally Posted by AgBeard

Ulta wide portraits - Surreal or what

Yea the look is crazy, but amazing

[briandee]

i like my wide angle lens for picts of kids. they are usually outrageous and a wide angle tends to exaggerate the stuff they are doing... example..

10mm (1.6 camera)

[josh98052]

Thanks for all the great tips, I am starting to feel a bit more confident with the lens.

I took this earlier today



Nikon D60
12mm
f/6.3
1/250 sec.
ISO 100
converted to b+w and cropped in lightroom

[rick020200]

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

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.

[geoffc]

What you lookin at?

[djotaku]

Originally Posted by briandee

i like my wide angle lens for picts of kids. they are usually outrageous and a wide angle tends to exaggerate the stuff they are doing... example..

10mm (1.6 camera)

I *love* the effect there. Looks like his upper body is much larger than his lower body.

[zephod]

Funny you should mention this. We took my son to the new park here the other day and I just put my 10-20 on and left everything else at home. He may never forgive me but I'm seeing that day in the future when they put this up on the screen during some club initiation in high school



Owen pointing to the plane was actually one of my favorites though.




doug

[victoriavoodoo]

Originally Posted by geoffc

What you lookin at?

cutest kid and picture EVER. i'm now definately going to save up for a wide angle =]. Is there anything to be said for the convertor or filter or whatever wide angle things? On a budget? example? I'm sure it's better to get a real lens but that might not be possible at the moment lol.