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Short lenses are fantastic things because you can ram loads in with them.
they got this tremendously wide field of view so they sort of suck up everything
plus they have a tremendously deep depth of field
which means more of your picture from front to back will be sharp,
but as you get in close they do something else too, they're very intimate
very personal when you stand next to them.
so if I take a shot of these stones here
at Salisbury kinda standing around anywhere. The picture i get has got no
depth
it's kinda disappointing but if i use this intimacy
and get in close to something like our friend Mr rock here
and use him for a bit of foreground that is a far more interesting image.
short wide angle lenses also stretch things
they make places look considerably bigger than they really are
now from that rock where we were a moment ago
to this one over here its only twenty five paces
but when I take a shot from here to here using a really short
ten millimeter lens its gonna open that space out
it's gonna make it look like I have a hell of a long way, let's get in here and
focus on the top the ten millimeter shot that rock seems such a long way away
especially when compared to a fifty millimeter which is a far more normal
perspective