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Creativity at the edge

Source:   With a short focal length you can make foreground objects appear more dominant in your scene Canon EOS M6, 15-45mm, 1/60sec at f/14, ISO 100  

Close and wide

One of the great characteristics of short focal-length lenses is that you get lots of depth of field. That's normally put to good use with landscape photography, but it's also useful for close-up work.

If you go close with a short focal-length lens, you get perspective distortion combined with a wide angle of view. This means your subject looks big and there is lots visible in

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