Photography tips

Wide-angle focal length

Chapel Bridge with water tower in Lucerne in front of Mount Pilatus at dawn

Key tips

Use a wide-angle focal length of 24 mm to capture both the Chapel Bridge and the Mount Pilatus massif within the frame.
Use a wide-angle focal length to capture the expansive mountain scenery.
Select a wide-angle focal length to capture the complete symmetry of the building in one shot.

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All subjects City Mountains Architecture Landscape Lucerne Pilatus Lake Lucerne

View of the Pilatus Kulm hotel and the mountain peak at sunset

13 mm · f/7.1 · 1/500 s · ISO 500

Night landscape with starry sky and Milky Way over Mount Pilatus in Central Switzerland.

12 mm · f/2 · 10 s · ISO 4000

View from Pilatus Kulm over the snow-covered mountain landscape in sunny weather

15 mm · f/5.6 · 1/1000 s · ISO 100

Wide-angle view from Mount Pilatus over Lake Lucerne with the Burgenstock and mountains of Central Switzerland

22 mm · f/8 · 1/640 s · ISO 100

View from a rocky summit of Mount Pilatus looking down onto Lake Lucerne and the surrounding Central Swiss Alpine landscape

18 mm · f/6.3 · 1/4000 s · ISO 400