Ultra wide lens application

[jumanji]

Thanks all for your sharing. I'm still finding a nice subject for this first ultra wide shot.

[Roger Thoms]

Nana Sousa Dias, who is a member here, does excellent wide angle work. Many of his images are shot with a 47mm lens on 4x5.

http://photo.net/photos/nanasousadias

Roger

[Mark Stahlke]

I use ultra wide angle lenses when I want to push space into a scene as opposed to using a long lens to compress a scene.

These were shot with a 55mm Apo Grandagon on 4x5.

[StoneNYC]

I use ultra wide angle lenses when I want to push space into a scene as opposed to using a long lens to compress a scene.

These were shot with a 55mm Apo Grandagon on 4x5.

I'm really impressed with how those images come together, I feel like I would shoot that and it would look really wide in an uncomfortable and awkward way where the image would seem stretched somehow, or maybe that's the quality of the lens? But I would think it's probably the photographer skill, I just don't have the skill to shoot wide like you, pretty amazing, I especially like that first one.

[lenser]

For me, architecture, especially interiors; and some landscape particularly when wanting to emphasize near far relationships.

[Jac@stafford.net]

I'm really impressed with how those images come together, I feel like I would shoot that and it would look really wide in an uncomfortable and awkward

We're the images cropped to eliminate the awkward extremes!

[VictoriaPerelet]

Im curious what subjects do you usually shoot with an ultra wide lens, like a 65mm on 4x5 ..

People?
72mm xl

47mm xl

[StoneNYC]

People?
72mm xl

47mm xl

I feel like with your work, I've seen it before and it always seems to almost emphasize the stretched perspective, so I'm wondering if you have any work with these lenses that doesn't skew the models body? Just curious. And to be clear this is not a criticism, this is an observation of the style of your work.