Photography tips

Using a wide angle creatively

View of the Chapel Bridge and Water Tower in Lucerne with Mount Pilatus in the background under a cloudy evening sky.

Key tips

Select an ultra-wide angle lens with a 12 mm focal length to effectively frame the vast sky and cloud formations.
Use an ultra-wide angle of 12 mm to capture a vast landscape, such as Lake Lucerne and the Pilatus massif, in its entirety.
Use a wide angle lens to frame your main subject between foreground elements.

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Rear view of a historic Rigi cogwheel railway carriage on the tracks in Vitznau.

22 mm · f/3.2 · 1/4000 s · ISO 400

The Zytglogge clock tower in Bern with overhead lines in the foreground.

18 mm · f/7.1 · 1/320 s · ISO 100