Tag Archives: Wide
How to be Creative with a Wide Angle Lens
Wide angle lenses have tremendous creative potential. The way they affect perspective and line helps you make dynamic and exciting images. Yet, care is required to get the best out of them. It takes a little thought to avoid the … Continue reading
5 Reasons to Consider Concert Photography with a Wide Open Aperture (and the Secret to Perfecting it)
Concert photography is arguably one of the most adrenaline-filled niches you can engage in as an image maker. Musicians, magazines, fans, and record labels alike turn to skilled concert photographers to tell a story for the momentous performance. For most … Continue reading
Best wide-angle prime lens 2018: fast and wide lenses for Canon and Nikon DSLRs
Like an optical shoehorn, a wide-angle lens helps you squeeze more into the picture. It’s ideal for landscape photography, not only because you can shrink huge, sweeping vistas into the frame, but also because you can exaggerate the perspective between … Continue reading
Weekly Photography Challenge – Open Wide
It’s time to open wide – your aperture that is – for this week’s photography challenge. It’s that simple. Grab a lens with a big aperture like a 50mm f/1.8 or a zoom that has f/2.8, and choose the widest … Continue reading
Review of the Venus Laowa 15mm F/4 Wide Angle Lens for Landscape Photographers
The choice of camera lens always represents a crucial moment for every photographer. But it is not always easy to find the lens that fits our actual needs, as too often we get seduced by features that we don’t really … Continue reading
Benefits of Using a Large Aperture and Tips for Shooting Wide Open
Upon first glance of one of my most prized lenses, the Canon 50mm f/1.2L USM, a bewildered remark typically arises from professionals and hobbyists alike. Though absolutely spectacular photographers in the industry love working with a wide open aperture, there … Continue reading
How to Backlight Wide Angle Environmental Portraits
Wide angle environmental portraits make beautiful large format prints and are often used by photographers to capture subjects against a stunning backdrop. However, a relatively small subject can get lost in the background. SLR Lounge created a video detailing how backlighting … Continue reading
Panasonic G-Series Optics (Wide Angle, 3D-Capable and Super Zoom)
Panasonic has added a trio of new guns: a Lumix G 14mm f/2.5 ASPH wide-angle, a Lumix G Vario 100-300mm f/4-5.6 OIS super zoom and most intriguing of the three, a “two-eyed” Lumix G … Continue reading
Weekly Photography Challenge – Wide Angle
Shooting with a wide angle can be challenging – to create an image that is engaging and has a good focal point. Check out these examples. By Magnus Wrenninge By aotaro Weekly Photography Challenge – Wide Angle Here is some … Continue reading
15 Expansive Wide Angle Images
Wide angle lenses provide a very different view of the world than what your eye sees. They are inclusive, meaning the viewer feels like they are included in the image – like they could step into it. These photographers have … Continue reading
Fast Glass: Tips for Working With Wide Aperture Lenses
As photographers, many of us become infatuated with new gear, such as a new flash, tripod, or lens. We scrimp and save our money, and go off to the camera store to purchase that new lens we’ve had our eye … Continue reading
Are You Obsessed with Shooting Wide Apertures – Here’s Why You Might Want to Hold Back
There’s a scene in the original Jurassic Park movie, that almost perfectly describes one lesson I have learned when documenting the world around me with my camera. In this scene Dr. Ian Malcolm, a brilliant mathematician who is visiting the … Continue reading