Wide-angle lenses provide a unique perspective that can enhance your photography and allow you to capture incredible depth of field. In this week’s Instagram Follow Friday we’re featuring a group of photographers who are capturing landscapes, astroscapes and more with their wide-angle lenses. Tag your Sony photo and video posts with #BeAlpha for your chance to be featured on AlphaUniverse.com, and follow @sonyalpha for your daily dose of creative inspiration.

Tag your Sony photo and video posts with #BeAlpha for your chance to be featured on AlphaUniverse.com, and follow @sonyalpha for your daily dose of creative inspiration.

Lizzy Gadd – @elizabethgadd

Lizzy Gadd is a Vancouver-based self-portrait artist and member of the Alpha Collective. She combines self portraits and landscapes to create beautiful and compelling imagery. She took the stunning images below using the Sony Alpha 7R IV and the Sony 12-24mm f/2.8 G Master lens and you can learn exactly how she did it in her Behind The Shot article. Follow her to see more of her moody self-portrait style.

Chandresh Kedhambadi – @photonchaser

Chandresh Kedhambadi (C.K) is a nightscape & landscape photographer based in Calgary, Alberta. His work mostly focuses on capturing the pristine beauty offered by the Canadian Rockies. As you scroll through his Instagram account, you’ll see countless photos of the Milky Way and even some spectacular shots of the aurora borealis. He took the beautiful image below at Banff National Park with his Sony Alpha 7R III and Sony 24mm f/1.4 G Master.

John Rodgers – @j.rod.photo

John Rodgers is a landscape, street and wildlife photographer specializing in wide angle and long exposure photography. Colorful and larger-than-life landscapes and astroscapes mostly fill his Instagram account, and you’ll find the occasional bird shot taken with a telephoto. The photo below he took of the Donner Summit Bridge, also called the Rainbow Bridge, in California with the Sony 12-24mm f/2.8 G Master lens. 

Fio Labruna – @fio.labruna

Fio Labruna is a nature, landscape and macro photographer as well as a passionate landscape ecologist based in South Germany. He posts beautiful nature images and landscapes, sharing the beautiful views he comes across with his followers. He took the beautiful landscape and sunstar photo below using his Sony Alpha 7R II and Sony 20mm f/1.8 G lens.

Alexis Gaurin – @alexis_gaurin

Alexis Gaurin is a landscape, architecture and lifestyle photographer. You’ll find a compelling variety of wide-angle and long exposure landscape shots on his Instagram account. He took this black and white sunrise image below at a two-minute exposure to create movement and contrast. He captured it with his Sony Alpha 7R III and Sony 16-35mm f/2.8 G Master lens.