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100 APPLYING | WIDE-ANGLE LENSES

SHOOTING

INTERIOR SPACES

Wide-angle lenses are ideal for shooting interiors, and to decide what to exclude from the composition, as
are particularly useful when working in small, indoor well as what to include. The space between various
spaces. However, you have to think quite carefully elements in the scene is also important. These lenses
about how to compose your shot. This type of lens emphasize elements in the foreground far more than
captures a wider area than a longer lens, so you need those farther away from the camera.

CHOOSE A LENS SELECT APERTURE PRIORITY
Select a wide-angle lens that Interior shots usually require a
gives you the best perspective and relatively wide depth of field. To achieve
captures everything you want to this, select a small aperture setting using
include in the composition. the Aperture Priority mode.

BARREL DISTORTION

Images taken with wide-angle lenses
can suffer from barrel distortion,
which makes straight vertical lines
appear to bow out toward the edge
of the frame. This can be rectified
in postproduction, unless it is
particularly extreme. If your camera
offers lens correction, try shooting
in JPEG to avoid barrel distortion.

USE A TRIPOD CREATE YOUR COMPOSITION
Using a small aperture to maximize Lines, whether physically present
depth of field can lead to long exposures. or implied by edges, can be used to help
You should use a tripod to avoid the risk create an interesting composition and a
of camera shake. sense of perspective.

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