Mackendrick smeared a thin layer of vaseline on the lenses, preventing Lancaster from focusing his eyes and giving him a perpetually blank gaze; Mackendrick then intentionally filmed scenes with JJ from a low angle using a wide lens with overhead lighting directly above Lancaster, so that the frames cast shadows on his face.
I am an artist and a writer, but according to Caryn James ["To Get the Best View of Television, Try Using a Wide Lens," Oct. 1] I'm hopelessly out of it for not watching TV, because "anyone who does not watch television cannot possibly understand mainstream American culture".
"There's been a grand debate over the fact we need a better growth model... in effect what we are suggesting here is that our mental model of how we generate growth has to use a wider lens," says Samans.
While persecution remains a reality for most of these gay characters, just as it does in many movies and television shows featuring gay love stories, the widening acceptance of AIDS as a pandemic rather than a gay disease — and the broadening debate on gay marriage and gay soldiers — have led, and have to some extent freed, writers and producers to use a wider lens to explore a broader landscape.
If you put a close-up lens on a painter's palette, his brush dives for various colors at random, but if you use a wider lens, you see the picture he's actually painting, and it's totally orderly.
Using a wide angle lens, owning US Airways, you are short oil and long the domestic economy.
If you want to know if these doggies can take you to the moon, first appraise the valuation structure of the market itself, using a wide angle lens that takes in several business cycles, maybe 50 years worth.
The retouching that was done to the photograph was only done to resolve some distortion with using a wide angle lens for a group shot, and not to alter or modify anyone's face.
Using examples from classics like The Big Lebowski, Barton Fink, Raising Arizona, and No Country for Old Men, he points out how the Coens and their go-to cinematographer Roger Deakins pack tons of information into simple reverse shots using a wide angle lens and incredibly precise edits.
There is another advantage to using a wide-angle lens as well.
Couldn't you place the camera high above the plant floor and take one photograph using a wide-angle lens?
