I just listed my wide angle lens for sale. I have taken the listing down after viewing this. Great ideas!

In the words of Robert Capa “If your pictures aren't good enough, you're not close enough.” To use wide angle lenses effectively, you have to get CLOSE to your subject.

@conchscooter

Жыл бұрын

Some people argue he meant emotionally close.

@madnesstothemethod3328

Жыл бұрын

@@conchscooter "some people" are effing morons

@feliperojas-doomride

Жыл бұрын

@@conchscooter it works both ways

I don't know which one of the two ways - your comments or your pictures - is the better way for the viewers to learn, what wide-angle lenses are all about. Thank you for your great contribution to the world of photography.

@ThePhotographicEye

6 ай бұрын

Thank you

Packed full of thought provoking gems, as usual.

@ThePhotographicEye

Жыл бұрын

Thank you

Thank you so much, Alex! When I restarted shooting after many years of inactivity, I must confess I was and close up or macro addicted. But from some years now I´m just in love with my wide angle lenses and my insignia lens (lol) is a 20-35 mm. I was so pleased to find here so many good advices and tips that in some measure validated and also give me new perspectives about the use of thee wonderful lenses. Thank you once again and regards from Brazil.

Alex, speaking as an aging and very experienced photographer raised in the dark age of analogue, I found this piece very refreshing. I have four lenses - 3 primes and an ultra-wide zoom. The zoom has been languishing in the bag. Now, thanks to these very helpful suggestions, it's going to get a new lease of life. Great stuff. Good to see the well deserved YT award in the background too; subtle placement there.

Hey Alex thanks for this. It's interesting because coming from an underwater photography background you really have to use wide angles and get really close to get some good images and especially if you want them to be well lit and give a sense of the scale of the underwater scenery and creatures. I've never really used that above water in portraits but this video is going to push me into trying it out! Thanks for all your videos!

Alex - this was an important one for me! I've always been a long lens, intimate details type of photographer, so generally shun wide except for certain landscapes. Your examples are inspiring to get to learning how to better handle wide in smaller circumstances! So far I like this series - cheers!

Great film Alex. I really appreciated it and now I am all fired up. A year or so ago I bought a 12-24 which has proven to be quite a chore. No one would say that I have mastered either end of it. Your wide angle of a convex mirror scene was brilliant.

If photographers had stuck to the rules, David Bailey would never have taken those iconic fashion photos in New York with Jean Shrimpton that literally changed the fashion photography industry overnight.

Thank you for the great video! I've always struggled to use very wide angle lenses and also haven't seen a lot of wide-angle photographs by other people that I really liked. You showed some wonderful examples in the video that motivate me to try a wide-angle myself again.

I love wide angle lenses and have always thought that these lenses are neglected by photographers. Getting distortions and different shapes is part of creativity 🤗 lovely context as always 🇦🇺📸

You are such a great teacher and the passion you feel for photography is so visible in each video you make.

@ThePhotographicEye

Жыл бұрын

Wow, thank you

What a great subject Alex ! we are often constrained by a mindset in using for example 35 or 50mm on the street, that we get stuck in the tunnel. I love how you have challenged us all to go beyond and think wider ! cheers, thank you 😊

@ThePhotographicEye

Жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it

Yet another example of the peril of rules! I too embrace the exaggerated perspective provided by short FLs and especially love the geometry of low-angle urban architectural shots where convergence can make the composition work (obviously, there are times where vertical verticals are called for, which is why we have tilt/shift, view cameras, and perspective correction software). If it induces vertigo in the viewer, at least they're engaged in the scene.

Its been a while since I have watched one of your videos. Love the delivery. Love how you challenge us to break those musty old photo club rules! Great advice

Great video Alex Kilbee, for me there is so much beauty and interest in distortion! I remember when Mario Testino shot Madonna and the Versace Ads using a wide angle lens and combined it with a shallow depth of field, truly beautiful images.

One of your best, I'm a huge fan of wide-angle lenses and you've analyzed extremely well how to use them. BTW, your sax player image is terrific.

I really liked this one and I am glad you included landscape examples as it got me to realize why some of my shots work. What also came to mind is to trust yourself when you see "a shot" and take it, then worry about the rules.

@ThePhotographicEye

Жыл бұрын

That’s cool, thanks for watching

Thank you for this lesson on wide angle lens. I have been playing with my 16mm f 2.8 Fuji lens today and found your video. I plan on using this lens and only this lens for the next six months, to really know the lens. I shoot street and have for years but never more than 28mm the 16 is going to take practice which is why I plan to have that as my one lens for a while. Again a good video.

Man....this video couldn't have come at a better time, been thinking about a wide angle lens for a while now, not just for landscapes, but for portraits as well. As a matter of fact, my very first decent portrait I ever took was with a Nikkor 14-24mm.

Excellent video (as always)! I know when watching one of your videos that I will actually learn something if I can only quiet my mind and listen with intent. Thanks for sharing!

First, thank you for a great video with a bunch of really varying examples. Secondly, just wow, your wide angle photos are so good! Really.love that you include so much of your own work in the clip nowadays. Thirdly, as I've shot more and more (on a hobbyist level) I get more and more drawn to the wider field of views. Not for landscape but rather documenting my immediate surroundings. I've got hooked on a 28mm field of view, but how know were I will end up.

Happy to see more of your images in this video Alex. Well done!

@ThePhotographicEye

Жыл бұрын

Thank you

I went to photography church right there! Keep preaching! 📸❤️‍🔥

I love shooting wide. You have a subject and rather than isolate it, you show how it interacts with the details of the surroundings. Sometimes the fun is in those details. I use telephoto when I need to isolate things for emphasis.

@ThePhotographicEye

Жыл бұрын

Awesome,

Thank you Alex. I have a wide angle lens and hardly ever use it. That is all about to change, thanks to you. So many ideas here to try. Great video👍👍👍👍

One of your best videos: “Chuck rules out the window and explore!” YES!!! And it’s a reminder of the wonders of wide angle lenses. Well done!

@ThePhotographicEye

Жыл бұрын

Cheers, thank you

Thank you for the Playlist. At least I have lessons being learned in order. Focus guaranteed. Thankyou. Great work Sir. Michael.

Alex, you are becoming the king. Thanks for everything you do. I got a 13mm for apsc this week and it's been a blast but I wanted some more structured tips before a job I have this weekend. This was exactly what I was looking for! Thanks,

@ThePhotographicEye

Жыл бұрын

😄 thank you

@nickelbers48

Жыл бұрын

@@ThePhotographicEye Client was super happy, so thank you! :P

Thank you for another useful presentation

Thank you for reminding this old guy of things I once learned! My favorite lens - though not the best is my Nikon 18-140. I noticed one day when friends were looking at my photos that they quickly viewed the closer photos of people and studied the ones that included more of their surroundings. I like shooting - wide and zoomed in!

Thank YOU Alex about wide angle lenses you open the door of creativity I have a 10-22mm ultrawide a hidden potential tool!

Thanks for the introduction to the work of Gustave Caillebotte. I had never heard of him previously. What a genius! What an inspiration. I may give up photogaphy and take up painting.

Thanks a lot. Great video.

loved this video and your ideas thank you

Another amazing video!!! Thank you.

I appreciated this video. A LOT. So many misconceptions about wide angle lenses. I think they are great for portraiture.

Interesting topic, i do not use my wide angle lens very often, may be because I don't know how to use it effectively. I usually use it for boring landscapes instead of daring photographing people with it. And as you said I may be scared of distortions, but sometimes with a good composition i recognise that this lens has some kind of 3D pop that my 50 doesn't. I will take the challenge and shoot more with it. Thanks to open my eyes and my creativity !

Awesome video as almost no one ever talks about using wide angle lenses for portraits. Bravo 🔆

I kinda hated wide angle lenses until i've got a used Leica Q. I was more in 50mm before. The Q showed me the love for 28mm. Now I'm obsessed with it and found a whole new world of photography. Actually I'm curating my pictures of the last 4 years for a photo website relaunch. Most of the selected pictures comming from the 28mm Q fixed lens. Thank you for this vid!

Fantastic encouragement to go crazy. I love my wide angle zoom and shall now remember I have permission to ignore distortion. Thank you for this.

@ThePhotographicEye

Жыл бұрын

Your welcome

i really needed to hear and see this, thank you so much.

@ThePhotographicEye

Жыл бұрын

Thank you

Hey Alex, great video as expected from you. With the multi camera smartphones, wide angle is a quite a thing now a days. People use wide angle lens more often these days; though one can argue the creativity index in their photos. May be this can be an aspect to look into as a follow up video or part 2 of this video. Also may I request to make similar video, a study of creative use of ultra-wide lenses, as well? And then perhaps another video with a comparison of wide vs ultra-wide?

Quite a coincidence you put this video out today. I carry my old dslr with me at work, everyday, and normally have the 50mm on it. 2 days ago, I decided to put the 10-18mm on it and have been having a ball. It can make an average scene or subject a lot more interesting.

I love my wide angle lens, I just love it for crowd scenes. It gives you a sense of being literally inside the image.

This just inspired me thank you

Once again very inspiring , thanks Alex

@ThePhotographicEye

Жыл бұрын

Thank you for watching

I love your videos so much! So much technical information delivered with such passion for photography and photographers. 👋🇨🇦

@ThePhotographicEye

Жыл бұрын

Thank you

Highly appreciated! Thank you!

@ThePhotographicEye

Жыл бұрын

You're welcome!

Back in the early 2000's my fave lens was the Canon EF20-35mm and I used it mainly at sci-fi conventions taking photos of friends and cosplayers mostly at the 20mm end., and mostly in the bar :) I liked the fact that I could get a small group of people in the frame while being only a couple of feet away from them or isolate one person in an environmental style portrait. This was on film btw, Canon EOS3.

Excellent !! Thank you.

I have been using 17mm for two weeks, and it is just gives a mindblowing perspective on what is being pictured/documented. I think it is one of the most important tool to document a moment while immersing the viewer.

This is your most inspirational video yet. I can’t wait to go out and try it.

@ThePhotographicEye

Жыл бұрын

Thank you

Thanks Alex for this amazing video.😊🎶💐

Refreshing to see some quality there!

So informative, interesting and inspiring. I am soon to but a wide angle lens and now having watched your video, I feel excited and cannot wait to try out your many tips. Thank you your video has been a real blessing.

WELL SAID..........WELL DONE !!

Thanx, Alwx for using more of your own images recently in your videos. They are grssat to seeamd back up your own point. Cheers

Great video! Thanks!

Thanks for your passion

Great ideas. Have to try these out this afternoon.

Great video Just got my 18 mm f1.4 fuji lens and i am sold..so much fun

I just discovered you and I LOVE your videos. Something about the way you are describing things is so inspiring and I just get it. Thank you so much.

@ThePhotographicEye

6 ай бұрын

Thank you so much!!

Great video, really inspiring to play with wide angle. Thanks!

@ThePhotographicEye

Жыл бұрын

Your welcome

Amazing insights. I have just started with a 20mm lens on a A7iii and this taught me so much. Some very special photos shown too. Thanks.

@ThePhotographicEye

Жыл бұрын

Thank you

You inspired me to look through my images filtered by focal length. Indeed, the wide ones stand out by their intimacy and impact. Makes me want to go out immediately and try my best. Good advice!

@ThePhotographicEye

10 ай бұрын

Glad it was helpful.

An amazing video. Thank you.

@ThePhotographicEye

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching

Many thanks for this one! I've used a 35mm for quite a while for street and landscape. Also for portraits to make people look tall or petite. I just began using a 16mm earlier this year and it's been quite an adventure. As you say, leading lines become way stronger and when you bring this into portraits and group shots it opens up a whole new world. Many of the shots look crazy but still fascinating so I hope as I progress I can use this constructively. Anyway, this has been most helpful!

@ThePhotographicEye

9 ай бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

You are a phenomenal photography educator. It's a privilege to have access to your knowledge on KZread.

@ThePhotographicEye

Жыл бұрын

Wow, thank you

Great video, very encouraging. Love the movie references, I find myself doing this often.

@ThePhotographicEye

Жыл бұрын

Thank you

A few months back I bought a 14mm lens. It’s been on my camera 50% of my events. Ever since I watched The Revenant. I was amazed the angles they used. They film with 12-21mm lens.

@PeterKoperdan

5 ай бұрын

Do you know other movies that use wide lenses a lot?

I use the 14mm ultra wide for many landscape images. Love using it.

Neat! I love my 28mm 2.8AF. I even used it in the studio fashion workshop I took. My prof couldn't believe it.

Thank goodness I came across this…. I was getting down about loving my 24mm prime. Motivated me to not get a 35. 🔥

Appreciate this video! I am now using a 12-24mm DX lens on my full frame Nikon D750, and playing with the cropped 18-35mm perspective: and I LOVE IT!

@ThePhotographicEye

11 ай бұрын

Good stuff!

I finally got around to getting my first fisheye lens, a Sony 16mm f/2.8 for my Sony A99. So far, I am astonished at how good it is and absolutely fascinated by the effects I can get. I already had enjoyed using a 10-20 on my APSC camera, but the fisheye just is in another realm.

@ThePhotographicEye

9 ай бұрын

Enjoy shooting

love it!!!

Nice vid thanks! Subbed.

Hi Alex, I love compression in my photos so I mostly shoot telephoto lenses… u made me want to try wide angle with that video!! I only wish u put what lenses were used next to your photos to give us an idea of which lens can do what. Thanks again 🙏

I used to use a 14mm religiously, but at some point it broke and I sent it off to be repaired. While it was being repaired I continued shooting the same way, but instead with a 55mm lens. I would have to take multiple photos and stitch them together, but it created some very interesting distortion and the resolution of the final images was insane. I love ultra wide angle lenses and use them 80% of the time. I love distortion, after all everyone's version of reality is uniquely distorted anyway. I believe it is best to embrace it.

That is exactly what I’m looking for as a painter I can incorporate this technique in photography and painting it’s an art

I watched this inspiring video and before it ended, I bought the RF 15-35mm. Thank you very much.

@ThePhotographicEye

Жыл бұрын

Awesome

Really enjoyed this video of yours …like I use to, when I watched your initial videos.

@ThePhotographicEye

Жыл бұрын

That’s great, thank you

Fascinating

Listening to Alex makes me calm. :)

Thank you for speaking the truth about wide lens usage👍 New sub!!!

@ThePhotographicEye

Жыл бұрын

Awesome. Thank you

Great episode and Bill Brandt was correct in his thoughts.

Wonderful video!!!❤

Excellent and very interesting presentation. I'll put away my telephoto lens for few days. You gave me interest for my wide angle ! Thanks for sharing

@ThePhotographicEye

Жыл бұрын

That’s awesome, thank you

I like how you showed examples in motion pictures and still images

Most people don't really understand that any "rules" we have are actually observations of movement. I discovered this myself when I became an English teacher and finally had the space to see that (of course) the rules followed the language, not the other way around. So, a message like yours which frees people of feeling yoked by these hard definitions is really important, not just for understanding English or photography, but for the exploration of everything.

@ThePhotographicEye

7 ай бұрын

Thank you so very much. That's a wonderful comment and thank you for sharing your experience as a teacher

Danke!

My first mirrorless setup was a Sony NEX-3 with a wide angle mount and it felt like a cheatcode to the photography game. I never missed anything and whatever I shot looked interesting.

Correction : a GREAT presentation

Thank you. All the best. 👍📷😎

This is very good!

A great discussion

Thank you for this video, I knew almost everything you said but always forget to apply those things when I'm out with my camera. Next time I go out shooting, I'll make this a challenge :D

@ThePhotographicEye

Жыл бұрын

Awesome

Well said! (I love my rectilinear wide-angle (I don’t want fish-eye) on my Olympus. It’s manual focus but that’s no problem. )