This is where a wide-angle lens comes in handy when you’re shooting a scene and you can’t fit it all in.  A normal focal length lens captures a landscape much like what we see with our own eyes, and a wide-angle lens creates a wider perspective.  From clear vistas to close-ups of individual landscape elements, wide-angle lenses produce pleasing results.  

Let’s explore some wide-angle lens photography skills and tips to help you get the most compelling photos using wide-angle lenses.  

1. When to use a wide-angle lens  

Wide-angle lenses have a wide range of views, allowing for panoramic shots.  If you shoot with a wide-angle lens and a normal lens, the photographer will take more pictures from the same viewpoint and stand in the same position. Therefore, you can choose a wide angle lens when you need to shoot a scene with a wide Angle of view.  In addition, when shooting, it is often necessary to release the feeling of the building or the grass is very big, which can not be shot with the standard lens and has no such effect. At this time, it is also very suitable for shooting with the wide-angle lens, which can immediately shoot the tall feeling of the building.  

The wide-angle lens serves another purpose besides capturing grander and more spectacular scenes.  It can be used to emphasize objects that are particularly close to your object, and to create a sense of space, giving objects a distinct difference in distance and size.  That is very level, the results of wide Angle lens depending almost things more things smaller pull open the distance on the vision has the perspective effect, can even to the distortion, of course, this is not desirable in photography, but using wide Angle lens suitable exaggeration, can make originally ordinary things out unusual feeling.  

2. Wide-angle lens photography skills

(1) Highlight the broad vision  

Using a wide-angle lens means you can capture more of the landscape.  This has several beneficial effects on the picture.  First, wide-angle lenses can show the grand scale of the landscape, showing the vastness of the space.  

Second, wide-angle lenses can highlight a single powerful body by putting the object in a prominent position, while also showing the subject’s relationship to the entire frame.  

(2) Render the foreground  

One of the best things about wide-angle lenses is that you can get up close and personal with the element of interest, making it even more important in the scene.  That is, a wide-angle lens changes the perceived size of the elements in the frame, making the foreground appear larger and the elements in the background appear smaller.  

Tip in practice: The best way to take advantage of this feature of wide-angle lenses is to use a low shooting Angle to put foreground elements in full screen.  And, because wide-angle lenses offer greater depth of field, you can get closer to foreground elements and still get a decent amount of sharpness in your photos.  Try shooting a foot or even closer to the foreground element to see how much of the scene you can focus on.  

(3) Ensure no distortion  

As any photographer who has worked with a wide-angle lens knows, the edges of a wide-angle lens are prone to distortion.  To ensure minimal distortion, try to keep the camera level with the ground.  

(4) Carefully use filters  

Shooting with a wide-angle lens poses two problems for filter users.  One is the use of a polarizer.  Polarizers affect the sky very much in ultra-wide angles and even make the picture look unnatural, so use polarizers carefully in scenes with the sky.  The second is the spiral filter, which is easy to affects the edge of the photo in the Wide Angle lens, causing dark Angle, especially when the same lens is equipped with multiple filters, we must pay attention to the dark Angle problem.  

If you must use filters, plug-in filters can help you avoid these problems.  In addition, when photographing landscapes, you often encounter the problem of large areas of the sky. In this case, you can use a medium grey gradient mirror to give the sky more layers.  

(5) Take photos with the thinking of scenery  

Shooting mountain scenery, seascape, and other scenery, because the shooting perspective, scenery wide, the scenery will be very particular about the location of scenery, line arrangement, etc.  This mentality should also be used when shooting with a wide-angle lens. Even when shooting streets and lanes, we should also pay attention to the lines of the street, as well as the direction of pedestrians and vehicles, and patiently wait for the best composition of the picture before pressing the shutter.  

The above is the knowledge of wide-angle lenses. A wide-angle lens is a lens that can shoot a wide field of vision, especially suitable for shooting the vast feeling of architecture and grassland.  If you’re also a landscape photographer, get a wide-angle lens.  Apexel distortion-free 110° HD wide-angle lenses allow you to blend more into the picture, making them ideal for capturing magnificent and awe-inspiring scenes that best represent the story you want to tell.