>From: "Daniel Mitchell" <danmitchell@xxxxxxxx>
>
> I've found that I don't have the skill to compose properly with a 17mm --
>either you go for the tricky shots where the extra field of view really has
>an effect, but I never think of those, or you just try to fit that extra bit
>of [whatever] into the picture -- and every time I've tried that, it just
>makes the subject look really small.
The key to super wide is to have a variety of distances in your image. If
everything is an equal distance away -- like most landscapes -- they will
simply look tiny.
So look for large foreground objects to balance off of your background. Or
check out some work of Muench.
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