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How to Use Ultra-Wide Lenses. August 2008 Nikon Reviews Canon Reviews Leica Reviews Pentax Reviews Introduction Ultrawide lenses are the most difficult lenses to use well. Ultrawides are not for "getting it all in. " Ultrawides are for getting yourself, and therefore the viewer, right smack into the middle of something. Ultrawides are for putting next to the muzzle of Dirty Harry's revolver to put it in your face. If you can't or won't get close, leave the ultrawide at home. Ultrawides rub the viewer's nose in your subject. Ultrawide lenses are for getting close and bringing the viewer into the photo, not for fitting a subject into a photo. Ultrawides are not for the faint of heart. Most people use ultrawides too sheepishly, and get crummy results with tiny subjects dwarfed in the middle of an open frame. Ultrawides require you to get very close and personal to anything you are shooting. If you use them properly, you'll be rewarded with dynamic images.

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