Quote Originally Posted by George Slusher
My point is to suggest that, instead of--or, better, in addition to--thinking of a SWA lens as being for wide panoramas, think of it as a way to get "up close and personal"--really close.

Exactly!!! Photos taken with an SWA/ UWA lens can take on a brilliant perspective if you get down and dirty. A lot of the time, if I'm using a tripod I'll take the centre column out and spin it around so it's upside down. Obviously that means the camera and hence the photos are also upside down but that's an easy fix. This gets me right down low so the foreground is as much the focal point of the photo as the dramatic background/ skies created from using an UWA lens. Stopping down to f/8.0 @ 10mm will get the whole shot in focus a lot of the time too.