Lesson 10. Use Wide-Angle Lenses to Create a Sense of Inclusion
One of the best lessons I ever learned was to look at our lenses in terms of their behaviors more than simply how wide they are or how big they make things in the frame. Our lenses play a huge part in what we say in the photographs we make. In some case they magnify, and for the photographer making photographs of lions on the Serengeti, that can be an important behavior, but it’s not the only behavior. It drives me crazy when I hear photographers telling each other that this lens is a “portrait lens” and that lens is a “landscape lens” or when you go to such and such a place you won’t need one lens or another.
Nikon D3s, 35mm, 1/320 @ f/8, ISO 400An eye-level view and a wide lens ...
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