markEdwardPhoto wrote:
I notice in a lot of image that the use wide angle lenses are being used.


Is this a trend?

Why are so many of you use WIDE Angle?

M

It has gone back and forth for as long as the lenses were made.
At times long lenses with blow out backgrounds are cool.
At other times it is the wide angle look.
As long as I have been around photography this has gone back and forth.
Some do it well.  Others do not.

MHana wrote:
Some do it well.  Others do not.

can I say no shit sherlock?

Lapis wrote:

can I say no shit sherlock?

My line.  Pay me now.

Some just suck.
What else is new?
People sucking is nothing new?
Plus It is the summer time.
Lots of time spent in cold water.
So the wide angle helps if you know what I mean.

markEdwardPhoto wrote:
I notice in a lot of image that the use wide angle lenses are being used.


Is this a trend?

Why are so many of you use WIDE Angle?

M

Well, I think part of it is because for so long, wide-angle choices for digital cameras with crop factors were extremely limited. Most photographers didn't even have a true wide angle for their digital camera. As they became available and people picked them up, they started experimenting with them, and voila -- you see images from them.

Personally, I love the way a wide angle allows you to tell a story in a picture. Used properly, it gives a depth to the picture that is almost impossible to get with a normal or telephoto lens. I also like the distorted look it gives -- as an effect.

Rick Gargiulo, the staff photographer at The Saratogian newspaper in Saratoga Springs, NY, is master of using the wide-angle this way, and I love his work with it.

Paul