I shot these photos with my 14mm prime. I primarily use this lens for landscape and astrophotography, because of the mixture of its speed and focal length, but when I get the chance to use it for portraiture, it's always a fun and interesting experience. My sister has begun her journey into the photography world, and received the assignment to make some panoramic photos, so I followed her on her assignment.
The first thing that i want to take note of is the fact that this lens has to be manually focused, which was definitely a struggle as I was following around a moving subject, so please excuse these if they are not all tack sharp.
I think that one of the most beneficial parts of using this wide angle, is the fact that the audience has the opportunity to see the whole picture. Though 14mm is quite wide, it is just under what the human eye would see at approximately 17mm, it gives the illusion that the photo was actually taken by a human eye. The amount of data captured by this lens is similar to what you would have seen, had you actually been there.
One of the most difficult things about using solely this lens to shoot these images, is the amount of distortion that this lens creates, and because of that, it makes the images seem surreal, and not necessarily in a good way, when dealing with documentary photographs.
It was also very difficult for me, as an artistic portraiture photographer, to get the closeup images that I wanted, because this focal length encompasses such a great distance. This, along with the fact that getting close to things distorts them were challenges for me. It was very difficult for me to capture detail in these shots.
I really appreciated this exercise, because to be quite honest, if I had the time for it I would have whipped out a different lens for just about every shot that I took. It was interesting for me to be confined to one lens, and have to create interesting shots using one focal length.
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