When you think of lenses for landscape photography, you likely think of wide focal lengths made for capturing a large amount of a scene in the frame. And while those are certainly useful, a good telephoto zoom can be just as useful. This fantastic video will show you seven different ways a 70-200mm lens can improve your landscape photography.
Coming to you from Nigel Danson, this excellent video will show you seven ways a 70-200mm lens can help your landscape photography. We generally associate landscape photography with lenses like a 16-35mm or a 24-70mm, and those are absolutely highly useful, but there is, of course, more to life than wide angles. A telephoto lens can be a great way to pick out individual elements, use compression to make render layers more dramatically, or to create more abstract shots. Since we are so used to seeing wider shots, the perspective created by a longer lens instantly stands out. If you have not tried one out in your own work, be sure to take it out with you the next time you head out!
And if you really want to dive into landscape photography, check out "Photographing The World 1: Landscape Photography and Post-Processing with Elia Locardi."
Great video. Couldn’t agree more. I’ve had some great lenses over the decades but my current (Nikon) 70-200/2.8 is probably my favourite ever. Incredibly versatile. Most of photography involves very fast moving dogs and it’s ideal for that but living on the Cornish coast, it captures its fair share of landscapes too.
My favorite landscape lens is a Panasonic 14-140 f3.5-5.6 MkI. It's small, lightweight and unusually sharp for a 10x zoom, and it minimizes lens swapping. The MkII version is also moisture- and dust-resistant.
P.S.: I'll elaborate further by noting that whether I'm hiking in mountains or wandering in and around small towns on Corsica or in New York City, I use the entire 28-280mm Effective Focal Length of this lens, sometimes making a wide shot of a harbor one moment and then a very long shot of flowers on a balcony the next. I got so tired of swapping my 12-35/2.8 and 35-100/2.8 zooms back and forth that I bought a 14-140 to avoid this, even though it largely duplicated focal lengths I already had. Of all my many MFT lenses, I think this is the one I'd keep even if I sold off all the others.