I used a long telephoto lens and stopped it all the way down to compress the perspective.

wide angle lenses are usually smaller (at least in the iPhone lens arena). "Wide" simply refers to their field of view, which is wider than telephoto, which we'll cover next. Telephoto lenses ...

As you can see in the leaf images below, the ShiftCam lens has a much sharper focus drop off than the iPhone 14 Pro’s 3x telephoto lens, with blur on the leaves and tree in the background ...