Street Photography With a UWA? Surely Not...

InternautInternaut Registered Users Posts: 347 Major grins
edited April 30, 2011 in Street and Documentary
From a walk around Manchester with my DSLR and UWA lens, last weekend.

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  • RichardRichard Administrators, Vanilla Admin Posts: 19,961 moderator
    edited April 16, 2011
    Well sure, why not? :D But these don't really have an ultra-wide look. If you get much closer to your subject, things can get really interesting. thumb.gif
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  • JocoJoco Registered Users Posts: 86 Big grins
    edited April 18, 2011
    Absolutely! Wide angle is great for getting in closer.
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  • bdcolenbdcolen Registered Users Posts: 3,804 Major grins
    edited April 19, 2011
    And, an ultra wide angle is extremely challenging because it can give you an image containing an enormous amount of material with a 'focus.' Just having a wide angle of view doesn't really add anything to an image. And while getting close is great, you then have to be super aware of distortion, and whether it adds or detracts, and what you may be including in the image that you don't want. ;-)
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  • InternautInternaut Registered Users Posts: 347 Major grins
    edited April 30, 2011
    Apologies for not having visited for a few days and thanks for looking and commenting. Generally, for street photography, I found I had a far greater ratio of photos I had to throw away when using my 9-18 lens. As for distortion? That can be funky:

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    But not when the subject of the distortion is a human being:

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