MSA O/N September, 2025 - "Wide Angle Perspective"

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Let’s take out our favorite wide angle lenses this month and create some images that show how you like to feature their unique characteristics. For some examples, I love getting close to subjects with them.

Nikkor 20mm


Canon FD 17mm



Takumar M42 17mm Fisheye



Here are the most recent MSA Guidelines:

For first-timers, the following summary of standard procedures should help (we are indebted to Ken Nadvornick for putting most of this together, and not objecting when this member organized activity moderator proposed to re-use [aka borrow] it):

(1) Take note of the MSA assignment, which you will find inserted into the title of the thread.

(2a) For the NEW Category, take your photo(s) according to the assignment guidelines. You are expected to shoot something new rather than grabbing from your archives. The exposure must happen during the period of the current MSA theme - usually one month - and must of course be submitted during that period.

2(b) For the OLD Category, you can use thematically appropriate Photos that you have taken in the past.

2(c) For either the NEW Category or the OLD Category, photos must originate as something that is consistent with Photrio's Analogue only section principles - i.e. using traditional (non-digital) processes. Scans from prints, slides, or negatives are permitted, but any digital adjustments should be strictly limited to what would be acceptable in the Photrio analogue only galleries. Please be sure to label which Category (OLD or NEW) your submission belongs in. Film and exposure information plus any special technical information is also good.

(3) You can post your photo in the MSA Gallery, or you can host your photo elsewhere and link to it in the thread, or, you can post it as an attachment to a message in the thread and it will show as a clickable thumbnail.

(4) It's all for fun, there are no prizes.

(5) at the end of the MSA, the previous winner who chose the theme:

(a) is encouraged to nominate from each of the "OLD" and "NEW" categories one photo that is the best photo in that category that illustrates the theme; and

(b) in any event, will choose (from those category "winners", if applicable) the single photo that is the best photo submitted as part of the current MSA that illustrates the theme.

The member submitting the "winning photo" will be declared the MSA "winner" and will have the opportunity and responsibility to choose a theme for the next MSA, and then choose a new winner from the submissions that follow.

Additional hints about uploading your photographs...

(6) How to upload to the MSA gallery: You perform the upload in the same way you would upload to the standard gallery, except you press the "'All subscriber galleries", you find a drop-down menu and press the Monthly Shooting Assignment, that’s it.

(7) You can instead, attach your image to a post in this thread. Or you can link to an image that is hosted elsewhere - please be sure all members will have access to such images, and that the links remain current.

8) Most importantly, have fun!
 
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Just announced, and I already have a "New"

Yesterday - Leica IIIc Voightlander 15mm Kodak Tmax 400

 

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Looks like fun. I'll do my mini-moderator stuff with Sticky Threads and updating the list of themes to date.
In the meantime, an Old image that happens to be the desktop image on the computer I'm using to post this:
 

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From 14 years ago:


And no, there was no sign of the owner of the shoes, and it was a really long distance down to the sea below!

A question that verges on pedantry for @russljames - do you consider any photo which makes use of exaggerated perspective due to close and far subjects plus extensive depth of field to be "eligible", or must the photo involve use of a so-called "wide angle lens"?
 

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[Old - March 2025] Upward Mobility



Leica IIIf, 21mm f/4 Color-Skopar, Fomapan 200, D-76 1+3, 45 min EMA, scan of silver print
 
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This one is twelve years old. I can't recall which lens was employed, so it may be an example where the perspective comes from camera placement only - no wide angle lens involved.
 

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[Old - July, 2013] Flow



Wisner Technical Field, 72mm f/5.6 Super-Angulon XL, Agfapan APX 100, red filter, 15 seconds, PMK Pyro, scan of silver print
 
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@MattKing

Greetings!, You asked, "A question that verges on pedantry for @russljames - do you consider any photo which makes use of exaggerated perspective due to close and far subjects plus extensive depth of field to be "eligible", or must the photo involve use of a so-called "wide angle lens"?"

I hadn't given that idea thought before choosing the theme. My initial meaning for "wide angle perspective" is to submit images that were/are created with lenses considered to be in the wide angle family of whatever film format is being used. But if "exaggerated perspective due to close and far subjects plus extensive depth of field" can be created with other focal lengths, thus rendering a wide angle "look", then bring them on.

Russ
 

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But if "exaggerated perspective due to close and far subjects plus extensive depth of field" can be created with other focal lengths, thus rendering a wide angle "look", then bring them on.

Russ

Sounds good. The only wide angle lens I have available is for my T5 so I will go with the exaggerated perspective plan with close and far.
 

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The images are great, I'm getting a fisheye in the mail Saturday and hope to participate with that.
 

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Is a pinhole photo eligible?
This one is old, from WWPPD 2022. Pinhole device is a small metal tin, 7cm high, 7cm in diameter
The film is Foma 400, cut from a roll of 120. Exposure time was 1 minute 20s
Scan of negative

 

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Older one (a couple of years old)

A shot from my long-term project called The Historics which documents the Monterey Motorsports Reunion held annually at Laguna Seca Raceway in Monterey, CA.

This one was shot with a Leica M-A and a Leica Super Elmar 21mm/f3.4 ASPH lens on HP5+ film.

 

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The cow got spooked by the (very loud) camera shutter.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think that might be a very "bull" like cow ......
 

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Fuji GS645W, 45mm @ f11, 1/250, Tmax 100 normal dev

Wide open desert, big wide lens. Big Bend National Park

That's a fun first post here!
 

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The title of this thread is wide angle perspective, but wide angle does not affect perspective.
 

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The title of this thread is wide angle perspective, but wide angle does not affect perspective.

Strictly speaking, no it does not. Perspective is entirely determined by the position of the scene elements relative to the camera. That is to say, perspective is established by how one places the camera (assuming the subject isn't moving during composition and taking the picture).

HOWEVER, wide angle lenses allow us to move up on objects and still keep the background in focus. It is exactly that "wide angle-ness" that permits us to reposition the camera for a different ... perspective.
 

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Welcome and good entry!

It is customary for new MSA contributors to buy everyone else a Leica. 'Just sayin' ...

Oh thanks!

... and I was unaware of the custom. I will start my 2nd mortgage documents ASAP.
 

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The title of this thread is wide angle perspective, but wide angle does not affect perspective.

Thus the quotation marks around the title words .
Although I would argue that shorter than "normal" focal length lenses invite and encourage one to elect to use the sort of subject to camera distance that results in the perspective effect referred to colloquially as "wide angle perspective".
And that shorthand is way less awkward than the wording I used earlier: "exaggerated perspective due to close and far subjects plus extensive depth of field".
 

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The title of this thread is wide angle perspective, but wide angle does not affect perspective.

I think the majority of us know this, clive. But...usually when we use short lenses we move our camera's position in closer to our subject, hence changing our perspective. Are you going to participate or be picky?
 
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