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All images in this article were taken by the author, with camera and lens metadata marked in the lower-right corner. Film photographs were scanned on a Noritsu LS-600 as 8-bit JPEGs under the “HIGH” preset and were exported after editing at 2000px on the long axis. Sample photographs were edited to taste and are not reflective of variables like vignetting or color rendition. Manual screenshots kindly provided by Mike Butkus. When photographers talk about “going wide”, the typical assumption is that they are referring to using lenses with shorter focal lengths. Yet many pictures that “feel” wide– such as pictures of grand, sweeping landscapes– are taken with the long lenses associated with portraiture or wildlife photography. “Scale” - Fujifilm TX-1, 90/4 These images– and many others– are accomplished by pushing against the boundaries of the frame itself, reshaping the perception of “wide” by altering an image’s aspect ratio. This is not a trick or hack; instead, it ...