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Wide-angle shooting

Q I bought a wide-angle lens for landscapes, but I feel my images are suffering, as I can’t seem to get to grips with composition with it. Any tips?

Michael O’Hare

A I love wide-angles. I use them for everything from travel portraits to landscape shots. But you’re right, Michael: they can give you a compositional challenge because of the broad field of view.

The key to shooting good wide-angle landscapes is the foreground. As soon as you pop the wide-angle lens on the camera and start exploring a location, you have to be thinking foreground, foreground, foreground. I’ll use anything from puddles or patches of grass to rocks to act as a base to the image. It’s inevitably going to take up quite a lot of your

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