Three Tips for Using a Wide Angle Lens: Exploring Photography with Mark Wallace 

Harry You need foreground interest. Google, "foreground interest Bryan Peterson" for some good tips. Bryan is the master.

***** Glad to help!

+snapfactory What kind of strap is that? I am looking for a long strap like that for a Nikon D7100.

Michelle Levasseur I was just getting ready to make a comment about shooting cars/trucks with a wide angle and I saw your comment. I like the effect - makes the vehicle look like it goes on forever. My favorite WA lens lens is the Tokina 16-28 f/2.8.

tophtml1 I love the effect as well - especially when you get nose to nose with the car and choose an edge to shoot as it gives that exaggerated perspective to the plane closest to the lens. Very cool :)

bump your aperture to 11 or 16 or so and then focus on the foreground. should work out

Sir you have answer probably the most important question that should have been addressed on the video. This guy on the video has supposedly travel are over the world but still has no common sense.. Most people following his tips will soon find out that either their background or the foreground goes out of focus.

Yes because the depth of field in a wide angle lens is wide.

Mark clearly shows the camera settings in his pictures which have the foreground and background in focus. This is achieved by stopping down the aperture to F8 or more and, increasing the ISO if necessary. Now that's not only common sense...but also basic photography.

Because he wanted to make everything in focus, so he needed a wide depth of field and stop down to 5.6. He would have stopped down to f/8 or f/11 if the scene is bright enough in order to get everything in focus without compromising the ISO

+Roger Maxwell Primes tend to be sharper, have less distortion, and are generally faster at that focal length. The best prime is always better than the best zoom that includes the same focal length.

Primes tend to be better at their particular focal length, since the entire engineering is geared towards one goal. Zooms give you much more flexibility however. So, it is going to depend on how good your wide angle zoom lens can perform. I suggest looking it up on a site such as www.dxomark.com. You might be able to compare both of your lenses against each other there. If not, look around at some other sites. You'll end up with a conclusion. That being said, there isn't any difference between a zoom and a prime at the same focal length. 24mm is the same on both.

***** I keep everything unless it's just horrible. External hard drives are cheap. :)

snapfactory What do you do then? Do you go back through and look at them every now and then? Or just save them in case you have a need for them? I'm trying to decide how I might pare down my collection, and if I should at all. Thanks for the feedback!

***** a very good exercise to see if your style got better is to take a new look at your old photos. it's like re-reading a (preferably) good book though it does not take the same amount of time

eukw Hanoi

FrzzFitness25 Here's a thing that NOBODY will actually tell: the DOF is also a function of distance to the subject and focal length used. You can get shallow depth of field with a 135mm on crop a body, with f/5.6, if you are only 2 feet away from the subject (distance measured always from the focal plane, which is the plane of the sensor) as you can see in this picture I took: www.flickr.com/photos/giupipia/16196082867/in/dateposted-public/ or better in this other picture: www.flickr.com/photos/giupipia/15095637994/in/dateposted-public/. With a wide angle lens basically the hyper focal distance, which actually affects the DOF, is as close as about 2 meters, or about 6.5 feet. . As you can see in the pictures Mark shows, by being very close to his subjects, the DOF is still limited although he shoots at f/5.6, or even f/8!!! Also another thing that is just simply wrong: often they say that lenses on a cropped body make a DOF wider than on a FF. It's false because they are forgetting to mention the focal length and most of all the distance from the subject and focal plane: What is actually making up DOF on a crop body is such distance, which for us to get the same shot we would take with the same 50mm lens on FF, we have to get further away from our subject in order to frame it the same way with the same focal length of 50mm but on a crop body. Because if actually stay on the same spot, with the same focal length, and the same aperture, the DOF will be shallower on the crop body camera, and wider on a FF. You can do the calculations on any major website for DOF calculations. Hope I helped you, good day, or night, whenever you're reading this.

FrzzFitness25 A large aperture (f/1.8 for example) will have a smaller depth of field, or less in focus, than a small aperture (f/4 for example). Auto focus or manual focus has no effect on depth of field (DoF). There are three basic things that effect DoF; Focal length (longer focal lengths inherently have a smaller DoF), Position to subject (the closer you are the smaller your DoF will be, that's why one of the challenges for macro photography is getting enough in focus), and finally aperture.

***** I actually made a video that demonstrates the effects of focal length, distance, and aperture on DOF. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-95Igz6QM7Ag.html

snapfactory Oh I missed that!!! You're then the only one who actually explains it, and doesn't just hang up on the aperture. Sure aperture is the "fastest" or the most comfy way to affect DOF, since very few people would switch lenses or worse move their feet to get closer to their subjects. :)