>>3495443>wide angle emphasizes foreground>telephoto emphasizes backgroundWhich is strange why people automatically think "wide angle = landscape" when they want to capture sweeping coastlines and mountainscapes.
Unfortunately a lot of amateurs realize this too late and fall for the "muh foreground interest" meme for wide angle landscapes. But the problem is if your subject is the mountains or cliffs in the background, you shouldn't artificially look for foreground interest to put there if it isn't there, otherwise the foreground interest distracts from the real subject (the cliffs that made you take the pic in the first place)
see pic related, image if the block were some random bushes you were standing in front of, and the houses far away were cliffs in the background. Would you want to pick a wide angle to emphasize the bushes, or a telephoto to ephasize the cliffs?
But if you found some genuinely interesting rock formations or trees in front of you and wanted to make that the subject of the photograph, then choosing a wide angle to emphasize the rocks or trees would be justified
That's the problem whats happening in this pic, the bushes become the subject
>>3493350But here it works, since the wide angle emphasizes the people
>>3493352Ask yourself: what is it that motivated me to take this pic in the first place?
then pick a focal length and framing that shows just that, and get rid of everything else.
For instance,
>>3495314 are you taking a picture of the mountain? The stars? or the parking lot? My guess is nobody cares about looking at a parking lot, so get it out of the frame.
>>3495443>I didnt plan to shoot and crop.Pull out your kit lens and play around with the zooms and see what gives you your favorite images. Maybe you will find out that wide angle is good for you. But from the shots you're making right now (poor foregrounds) your eye doesn't look trained to see wide angle compositions
