Adding a wide-angle lens to your camera accessories is a quick, easy way to improve your travel photography as well as storytelling in all your pictures. But if you are one of the many recent converts to the digital SLR cameras, be aware that when you compare the wide-angle that comes with most cameras to other options, it is not nearly as wide as it seems. Going wide is not cheap. It also takes practice to master, but the results of going wide -- even if you don not get a Pulitzer -- are well worth the expense and time.

Most DSLRs cameras come standard with an 18mm lens, when compared to the days of 35mm cameras was wide enough to capture the Gobi. However, note that on a dSLR camera it is not truly 18mm.

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