hdri background images

If you have an HDRI that looks like a regular photo, you can use that as a 
screen-mapped environment map, but that's not advisable, as there's no way to 
reflect a screen-mapped environment map or use it for lighting purposes.

If your map is a spherical environment map in lat/long format, you can tile 
it to get more of it visible through your camera, but it'll no longer 
reflect/refract/illuminate as though it was actual scenery, which kind of
defeats 
the purpose.

If you have a very clear, high-resolution HDRI, it'll naturally make a good 
backdrop with little or no user intervention. It sounds to me like you're 
particularly attached to an HDRI that just isn't suitable for your purposes. 
Or that you're using too long a focal length and your FOV's just too narrow 
to see much of the background...

Problem solved Mr Mcleod thankyou, originally I didn't use a camera and 
that's where the problem lay so now I am able to catch the entire just by 
adjusting the FOV.  But now that my biggest problem is solved what the other 
where I see one side the image in the medit and the direct opposite side in 
viewport.  For eg. I'm viewing the sunset in the medit but the viewport 
displays the house which is what I would get in medit if I rotated the images 
180deg