Wide Angle - Image Bank

This amazing image from Notre Dame in Montreal. The photographer says it was straight out of the camera. I really like the symmetry and the saturated colour. 

Using a wide angle lens you can focus quite close and still keep a good depth of field. Shooting close gives a very exaggerated view to add emphasis to the subject.

Wide Angle Lenses can add drama and liven up what would normally be a boring shot. This over-saturated image exaggerates the front legs of the Eyeful Tower. 

A fisheye lens distorts horizons so can mislead the viewer unless they understand what they are looking at. But it does look very dramatic

Using a wide angle lens distorts any features very close to the lens. So can make for rather unflattering photos. I would not use a wide angle lens in portraiture.

Wide angle shots of man made structures gives dynamic and exaggerated perspective. In the is shot the eye is led into the middle through the lines of the building.