The Functions of Wide-Angle Lenses

Having a wide-angle lens, what kind of pictures can be taken?

Different from the medium-square of the standard focal segment lenses, and also different from the strong sense of air cutting of the telephoto lenses, the wide-angle lenses have more advantages in these aspects:

1. Showing grand scenes

The advantage of wide-angle lenses is that they have a wide viewing angle and can include more scenes in the picture to capture a sense of vastness.

Therefore, wide-angle lenses are very suitable for outdoor landscape photography, such as recording vast fields and shooting the vast starry sky, concentrating as much of the beautiful scenery as possible in one photo.

The pictures taken with wide-angle lenses also have a feeling of magnificence and grandeur, which is very suitable for landscape photography.

For large group photo shoots, wide-angle lenses can also exert their own advantages, that is, to record more people at a relatively close distance. However, it should be noted that wide-angle lenses usually have a certain amount of distortion, especially in the edge part is more obvious, which needs to be corrected in the later stage.

2. Presenting special effects

The distortion brought by wide-angle lenses is not necessarily all negative effects. When shooting sports scenes and some architectural themes, the strong distortion will bring a shocking visual impact and make the photos look more powerful.

The distorted shape can bring some wonderful effects, such as making the extended building appear taller and making the movements of characters more exaggerated, which just meets the attributes of these themes. Making good use of them can also get very good results.

3. Close-up shooting

If you want to capture all the scenes in the picture in a relatively small space, wide-angle lenses can come into play.

For example, in some extreme sports when close-up follow-up shooting is required, wide-angle lenses or even exaggerated fisheye lenses need to be used to show the full picture of the characters;

And for some indoor shootings, in order to achieve special effects or to fully display the spatial effect, wide-angle lenses also need to be used to shoot.

It can be said that wide-angle lenses have useful applications in many fields, and reasonable utilization can produce very wonderful effects.

This article comes from the WeChat public account: Play Some Photography (ID: wakexiao), author: AGER