Though there aren’t any hard rules on the subject—and all rules are made to be broken—wide-angle and ultra-wide-angle lenses are often considered to be the go-to lenses for landscape photography. It’s not like you can’t capture wonderful landscapes with normal or telephoto lenses (you absolutely can), but due to their broad capture angles, wide- and ultra-wide-angle lenses usually win out over the alternative choices. For those who wish to go wider than ultra-wide, you have to turn to fisheye lenses.
Photographs © Allan Weitz 2020
What Is a Fisheye Lens?
In 1906 the American physicist Robert Wood added “fisheye” to the optical lexicon, believing the ultra-wide lenses approximate the hemispherical view a fish would have from underwater. The benefit for fish is that the 180° angles-of-view afforded by their eyes enables them to spot both predators and food sources quicker and easier. The advantage of fisheye lenses for photographers is that they deliver the widest possible views of most any given scene. Fisheye lenses can also be used to turn everything into exaggerated plays on perspective and image composition.
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