Creating Minimalist Landscape Photos With a Telephoto Lens

For the most part, landscape photographs are shot using a wide angle lens to capture as much of the scene as possible. Of course, however, that is not the only way you have to approach the genre. A telephoto lens can give a novel and interesting view of a scene. This excellent video tutorial will show you how to use a telephoto lens to take minimalist landscape shots. 

Coming to you from Michael Shainblum, this great video tutorial discusses the process of creating minimalist landscape photos using a telephoto lens. The beauty of landscape photography is how one can get many different compelling shots from one scene by varying settings, focal length usage, and more. Telephoto lenses tend to get a bit underused, but they can yield fantastic shots by allowing you to pick out interesting individual elements and render them in abstract ways. Because we are so used to wide angle landscape shots, using a telephoto lens can help your work more readily stand out from that of others. Check out the video above for the full rundown from Shainblum.

If you would like to learn more about improving your landscape photography, be sure to check out "Photographing The World 1: Landscape Photography and Post-Processing with Elia Locardi."