Easy Exposure - Topic: Wide Angle Lenses

easyexposure on Wide Angle Lenses

Thu, 07 Feb 2013 13:21:45 -0800

Kultej, Different lenses are good for different things. As everybody said: wide angle is better for landscapes and architecture, because it will give you as much coverage as possible. But in a lot of cases it can give you more coverage then you wish and it also tend to give you a distortion. In some cases distortion works, in some it doesn't. It is possible to fix distortion in post so. The best way to go about it (since you already bought it), is to go and try it out. Go and try to shoot different things, like landscape, architecture and even some portraits and see what you like or don't like.
You can actually get very interesting photos with it, which will make viewer feel like he is almost a part of the scene.
It is a good lens to have in your bag for a certain situations, but it would not be my everyday lens so.
Also next time before buying the lens, you should think of what would be it purpose.

P.S.: Go try to shoot some pics and share with us please.

Mandrake on Wide Angle Lenses

Thu, 07 Feb 2013 04:02:04 -0800

Daniela.... Just let it go.

Kultej on Wide Angle Lenses

Wed, 06 Feb 2013 22:05:29 -0800

Daniela

I have the 35mm /f1.8.
I am perturbed about the wide angle that i have invested in and now find it a waste.But i will still try and shoot landscape !

daniela on Wide Angle Lenses

Wed, 06 Feb 2013 14:09:48 -0800

Kultej said

Daniela
So i gather i will not be able to do much with wide angle lens except architectural or landscapes.
How can i learn how to use it properly since now that i have bought it??

Of course you can do a lot with that lens. The lens zoom from 10mm to 24mm, most of my pictures are taken from 18mm to 24mm. The only thing you have to do, is approaching more from the subject in order to get the image bigger on the screen. Try to get out and take some pictures on different subjects, buildings, portraits etc...and evaluate for yourself if you zoom to 24mm and the subject is too far, and you cannot aproach more...then you may need a 16-85mm zoom lens or maybe a 50mm prime or 35mm prime (they are cheap). See this article to understand focal lenght:

http://www.nikonusa.com/en/Lea.....ength.html

Bjørn (Madman) on Wide Angle Lenses

Mon, 04 Feb 2013 23:16:18 -0800

Kultej said

Daniela
So i gather i will not be able to do much with wide angle lens except architectural or landscapes.
How can i learn how to use it properly since now that i have bought it??

I whould think by using it alot.. See if you like the photos it gives you, if you like them then you can use it.

Kultej on Wide Angle Lenses

Mon, 04 Feb 2013 22:20:01 -0800

Daniela
So i gather i will not be able to do much with wide angle lens except architectural or landscapes.
How can i learn how to use it properly since now that i have bought it??

Bjørn (Madman) on Wide Angle Lenses

Mon, 04 Feb 2013 10:01:00 -0800

Daniela said

Madman, unless we want to get some creative effect on portrait I think this lens Nikkor 10-24mm f3.5/4.5 make a huge of distortion into faces and human proportions...it's like a fisheye with that 10mm even in a crop mode. If I had that lens I would use it for lanscape, like you said, interiors and enclosed spaces, but also in some architectural buildings from the exterior. BUT only from 12mm to 24mm in crop mode (like in the D90) because wider than that, everything will be so distorted like a barrel ... and it's nice to now or then to take a shot with that angle but it's so anoying.
Last month, I saw some interior photos of some rooms in a building, for real estate purposes and the guy (the photographer) took the pictures with a DX camera and a tokina lens in 12mm (it's 18mm equivalent in FX). Personally I didn't like the photos because there was lack of space, and of course that the wide angle lens creates the illusion of a larger space...but the furniture that was near the guy looks to deformed from their real proportions. For an architect the deformation that the lens produces into architectural buildings or spaces is not a good thing at all.

I know this Daniela. But there is photographers using it for portraits, i whould not use it to portraits beacause i use a 35mm for my portraits.
But nothing is "wrong" if the photographer want to use it, it is right.
And when it comes to realestate photography there is not many of them that know how to take a photo. They almost allways look distorted and deformed. (No offense to pepole working in realestate.)

daniela on Wide Angle Lenses

Mon, 04 Feb 2013 09:45:40 -0800

Madman, unless we want to get some creative effect on portrait I think this lens Nikkor 10-24mm f3.5/4.5 make a huge of distortion into faces and human proportions...it's like a fisheye with that 10mm even in a crop mode. If I had that lens I would use it for lanscape, like you said, interiors and enclosed spaces, but also in some architectural buildings from the exterior. BUT only from 12mm to 24mm in crop mode (like in the D90) because wider than that, everything will be so distorted like a barrel ... and it's nice to now or then to take a shot with that angle but it's so anoying.
Last month, I saw some interior photos of some rooms in a building, for real estate purposes and the guy (the photographer) took the pictures with a DX camera and a tokina lens in 12mm (it's 18mm equivalent in FX). Personally I didn't like the photos because there was lack of space, and of course that the wide angle lens creates the illusion of a larger space...but the furniture that was near the guy looks to deformed from their real proportions. For an architect the deformation that the lens produces into architectural buildings or spaces is not a good thing at all.

Bjørn (Madman) on Wide Angle Lenses

Mon, 04 Feb 2013 08:40:18 -0800

Like Oksana said. "Quote" Wide angle can be used for landscapes, interiors and enclosed spaces. There some photographers which even use it for portraits.

Kultej on Wide Angle Lenses

Mon, 04 Feb 2013 06:54:48 -0800

Daniela
I need to know use and best to use the wide angle lens.
I have a Nikkor 10-24mm f3.5/4.5.

daniela on Wide Angle Lenses

Mon, 04 Feb 2013 05:49:48 -0800

Why didn't you said so from the beginning? Well... what do you want to know exacly about wide angle lens? There are tons of books about this subject.

Mandrake on Wide Angle Lenses

Mon, 04 Feb 2013 03:05:56 -0800

I didn't think so.

Kultej on Wide Angle Lenses

Sun, 03 Feb 2013 20:38:18 -0800

Thanks Daniela for the links
I am actually looking for help with wide angle lenses not pertaining to Dental use.

daniela on Wide Angle Lenses

Sun, 03 Feb 2013 08:55:19 -0800

Hello Kultej, here are some links you can study from after you get the correct lens. On nikon, they call "micro lens" a lens that allows to focus very near the subject. Your D90 is a DX machine (with crop sensor) so you can get a DX lens or a FX lens (does not matter). You will be well served with a AF-S DX Micro Nikkor 85mm f/3.5G ED VR or search here for another possibility:
http://www.nikonusa.com/en/Nik.....index.page

If you have any question about lenses, you can ask here before you buy.
Those are some links about techniques and equipment in your field:

http://www.dentaldigitalphotog.....mera-gear/
http://www.dentalphotographyin.....niques.htm
http://bardent.co.uk/wander_pd.....5B1%5D.pdf
http://www.dinecorp.com/

Kultej on Wide Angle Lenses

Thu, 31 Jan 2013 21:30:21 -0800

Since i had just become a member ,I thought i would be a good idea to introduce myself.So all those who made fun of me as a dentist , they need to get their punctuation right.
Yes i do know that i need to use a 85mm /105 mm lens with a macro lens. with a ring flash.So thanks Daniela and easyexposure!!
I had bought a wide angle and was unable to use it properly,so i have posted this question.Would like your inputs or links which i could read and learn from.