That’s fine – until you have people in the frame, and then it becomes a problem, especially if they suddenly appear twice as wide or, if they’re closer to the camera, have ridiculously elongated facial features. You may have noticed this effect and dismissed it as an inevitable result of the wide angle of view. It’s called ‘volume distortion’ (or volumetric distortion) and it’s where objects near the edge of the frame become wildly elongated. It was shot with a Laowa 9mm APS-C ultra-wide lens (around 13.5mm equivalent in full frame terms), and excellent as this lens is, it suffers from the same issue as ultra-wide lenses everywhere. It’s not one of my best photos but it’s perfect for illustrating this particular issue. This is not inevitable, and it can be fixed! This is typical of the volume distortion you get with ultra-wide lenses, where objects (and people) near the edge of the frame become unnaturally wide.
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