Skills of using wide-angle fixed-focus lens

Lead: Many new photographers are used to using zoom lenses, and they also have many questions about fixed-focus lenses. Since zoom lenses can have different focal lengths, why use a fixed-focus lens with only a single focal length? If it is a wide-angle fixed focus, isn't it just used to take magnificent scenery photos? In fact, even with wide-angle fixed focus, you can still take photos with different feelings! Everybody follow me to have a look!

Photographer Olivier Duong wrote an article explaining the benefits of using a wide-angle fixed-focus lens, and also provided tips for 10 shooting with a 28mm lens! Whether you are a novice or a veteran photographer, you may wish to refer to Duong's 10 gameplay, which may help you shoot unexpected works!

1. Find the crux.

Wide-angle lens limits the photographer's vision, because there are too many scenes in the picture, and the photographer has to find out the tears to make the photo stand out. Puncture point is a concept put forward by roland barthes, a literary critic. Simply put, it is to provide a small detail and a small thought in the image, which inadvertently hurts the viewer's senses, and this is the key to making people fall in love with a work.

2. Look at the image from a macro perspective

Because there are too many people and things in the picture, don't just pay attention to the details when shooting, you can look at the whole picture from a macro perspective. Duong mentioned Pragnanz's law. When composing a composition, he imagined simplifying things in the picture into simple shapes and lines, thus combining these shapes into an interesting and unique composition.

Guide the line of sight

It's difficult to get a shot with a wide-angle lens. There are too many scenes in the lens. To highlight the subject, it is necessary to guide the viewer's line of sight through the lines and composition of the picture, so that the viewer can pay more attention to the' subject' that the photographer wants to express.

Come closer.

This is especially suitable for taking portraits. If you want to capture the expression of the portrait and capture his present expression, you need to get closer. This also allows players who are used to using long lenses to get out of the comfort zone and try to have more communication with the subject.

5. Take photos with the thinking of landscape photos.

When taking photos of mountain scenery, seascape and other scenery, due to the long shooting time and wide field of vision, the location and line arrangement of the scenery will be very particular. You should also use this mentality when shooting with a wide-angle lens. Even if you shoot streets, you should pay attention to the lines of streets and the direction of pedestrians and vehicles, and wait patiently for the best moment of composition before pressing the shutter.

6. Dare to shoot exaggerated wide-angle effects

When using a wide-angle lens, the distance between the foreground and the background will be exaggerated, resulting in perspective distortion. If you make good use of the photo theme, you can shoot a unique effect.

7. Make full use of space

Wide-angle lens can shoot more scenery. If you don't want every photo to have a rich and complicated picture, you can try to leave a blank in the picture and make more changes.

8. There is a box in the box

Since the wide-angle picture is too wide, reset the photo frame yourself! Shadows, the appearance of buildings, etc. Because the background of the subject can guide the viewer's line of sight and highlight the subject.

9. Try different shooting angles

If you want to shoot a good work that is different from others, you might as well make some new attempts. Shooting from a less used angle may bring surprises!

10. Make good use of light

The most difficult thing to use a wide-angle lens is to focus the viewer's eyes on the subject. Making good use of light to guide the viewer is also a good way to highlight the subject.