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I love anything that’s well-done, frankly. And while not every single photo here represents your best work - and how can it be otherwise? - the proportion of photos you take that I’d be proud to call my own is just astonishing.
Thank you, Michael! Yeah, my favorite photos these days tend to be atmospheric forest scenes, which are rather hard to capture at this time of year, so I need to explore other stuff ;)
All of your images are beautiful, but my favourite is the one in portrait orientation of the trees with the layers of pink and orange in the sky. Simply stunning! . I watch a number of RU-vid channels and it seems to me that recently there has been a tendency to move away from wide angle lenses towards longer length ones. However, as you say, I feel that all focal lengths have their place in landscape photography - whatever suits the circumstances. Thank you for another great video.
The takeaway I get from this video is that the composition determines the lens and focal length. Some of my favorite photos in your portfolio are wide angle captures. With that said, I do love taking photos with my telephoto too.
Used to think wide angles were the way to go in landscapes. Bought the 16-35 GM right away and loved it, but after a while, images using longer focal lengths / telephotos became some of my favorite captures. Though I don’t really get why there is a “landscape” or “portrait” lens label when it’s still about the vision or how it is used by the photographer.
Yep, it always baffled me as well. It's just framing. What you frame and how, may turn out to be a portrait or landscape photo. It's about what how do you want to frame, that's in front of you, a beautiful moment. And the lens only changes frame size and weight you have to carry.
Your tree cluster with sunset colors at 14:45 looks about as good as being there, probably better. Thank you for having fun and for your work to share it.
I’m always amazed by the way you can take the most simple landscape and turn it into stunning photography! A few light rays, a sunset, or a stand of trees can really make a difference!
I must say my favourite is sunset with the trees in the shot, I just like sunrise and sunsets for these type of shots. Our Oilseed Rape is virtually clear of flowers now. But a tip for anyone wanting to catch the crop in flower is to go further north where crops will be later flowering.
Frequently, people use the often dramatic, but much overworked effect of a wide angle lens as a substitute for a considered composition, and in this video, you address that perfectly, to excellent effect. An enjoyable watch, as always.
I liked the last image you posted- mid day- the colors and contrast are much cleaner between the yellow field, blue sky and tree silhouettes with punches of green.- Just my personal preference.
Very true. Excellent demonstration (quite long focal lenght lenses are usually the best suited to make interesting shots of boring landscapes (assuming a good light)
Fantastic video! Give me a field of flowers and I could spend hours! I like both the photos with the clouds and the clear blue sky one. I like both because my mood could go either way at any moment. There is something simple and minimalistic about the yellow and blue combo, but there are times when I want my photos to have a bit of "drama" and clouds can easily do that.
Such a master in composition and utilizing light always find myself coming back to your channel just to see what you do next. Thank you Mads for sharing your expertise.
Mads, those are absolutely spectacular images. Something so simple yet so beautiful! I agree I love the long lenses for landscape photography. The 70-200 doesn't come off of my camera much. I loved all of those images! Man you're awesome!
Deadly right saying every lenses are for landscape photography. Here in my country side, more tele, more pictures. (different pictures) so I recently bought a 500mm second hand. Difficulties of atmospheric and... Far far subjects but wonderful!
Thsnk you for all of the tips you share, very valuable to me. As far as my favorite, I like them all but if I have to pick a favorite it would be the sunset photos.
Oh wow you did get the trees with the sunset colors and a few clouds!! Stunning shot! I have the three zoom lenses 15 - 35 and 24 - 70 and 70 - 200 and I seem to always use the 70 - 200 the most. Sometimes an epic landscape dictates a super wide angle but not very often. Especially where I am in New Hampshire. Our scenes are just not giant like they are out west. I've actually been contemplating trading the 70 - 200 for a 100 - 500. I can't really afford both but I really like the 70 - 200 f/2.8 for inside shots of musical events so I don't think I can trade it in for the much slower 100 - 500. Oh well it's always a compromise. Thanks Mads for another great and informative video.
Love the shot with the grouping of trees back in the field. You did a lot of hand holding. What is your shutter speed limit for hand holding as you did here?
I would have seen most of your landscape videos and is a big fan of yours. I am predominantly a wildlife photographer, who also try landscape photography, whenever the opportunity comes by. Wish I could travel with you at least once to learn more about the art of Landscape Photography Mads. Do you conduct workshops?
Thanks a lot, Vinod. Happy to hear that. Yes, I do. They're on my homepage. I may announce something for 2023 soon. You can also subscribe to my newsletter, that's where I first announce the workshops.
Around 5:27 you started to discuss about the nice line of trees on the horizon and then shoot something else - the beautiful sun rays through the clouds. The cliffhanger in my mind was, is he going to drive on (to camera right) and bring the sun rays near those trees? Or is he "just" going to take a long lens to shoot the tree line? The answer is in the video :)
Very nice landscape images, Mads! As a landscape and product photographer, my thoughts on the subject are that ANY lens can be used to create a successful landscape image...I think it simply depends on the lighting, subject, desired intent, and of course, the skill of the photographer. Personally, I use focal lengths from 24mm to 300mm, including the "normal" 50mm. I also create super-wide panoramic images, usually with my sharpest lens, the Nikkor Z 50mm f/1.8, shooting vertically on a tripod, to maximize detail. My question, sir, is do you always shoot hand-held, or is this just for these RU-vid videos? I find that I obtain maximum sharpness and detail in my landscape (and product) images when I employ a solid tripod, use the optimum aperture for the particular lens (usually f/8), and a 5 or 10 second timer, depending on the focal length used. Thank you!
I only recently purchased a wide angle lens, mainly to use in tight quarters when my other lenses aren't sufficient. With landscapes, I always felt that doing multi-shot panoramics was the best way to get more in the shot than my regular lenses could capture. Of course, it depends on how much I'm willing to do to deal with movement in the scene and parallax issues.
Thanks Mad, the idea of longer lenses useful for landscape is something I didn't consider. One small question please, when you show us the photos, would you include the exif data too? cheers Glyn
You have a good point. But I don’t remember Denmark as having e.g. large mountainous deserts. A wide or very wide lens can work wonders there, as is my experience.
All of this same info goes for cityscapes too. I shoot around NYC and all logic says 12-24 is the ideal kit... but at this point I've widened my range to the Sony 24-105/F4, 85/F1.8, and Jupter 37a 135/F3.5. And there's definitely an ultrawide coming next. You're absolutely right: any lens can be a landscape lens... and indeed basically any lense IS a landscape lenses.
I have a 16-35 but almost never use it for landscapes, and when I do it's almost never at the wide end. My main landscape lens is a 24-105 and most of my focal lengths are in the 35-50mm range.
Thanks for the video Mads - nice pics sir! Since I use the same camera and L bracket as you, can you tell me what you use for a shutter trigger on long exposures? I've resorted to using an app, since the plug sticks out too far to mount on a tripod in portrait orientation. Extending the bracket - which is why I got that bracket - doesn't help either, as I find it was not perfectly straight when extended.
Hi Mads. Really interesting video from which I have taken your advice. Have you done anything on post processing for scenes like these? I have tried a range of in camera settings and processing in Lightroom but never seem to get the real life look for the rapeseed colour.
The Danish countryside 2022 - rapeseed and power lines. If the power plant burns rapeseed oil to generate electricity there might be a connection even. I'm not claiming that would be clean or renewable, by the way, as that is questionable.
Wide angle lenses are landscape (and architecture) lenses. They're primarily useful for landscapes. They're not great for portraits, and generally pretty terrible for sports/wildlife/product/macro photography. "Wide angle lenses are landscape lenses" does not mean the same thing as "landscape lenses are wide-angle". People also often confuse "telephoto" with "long focal length". It just means the focal length is longer than the lens physically is. The iPhone 13 Pro has a 3.65mm thick camera bump and is overall 7.57mm, so at most the lens is 11.22mm long (in practice a good bit less since there's screen & sensor & some circuitry crammed in there. It's got an "ultra wide" 13mm lens as one of its three, which is a telephoto lens due to the very short length of the lens itself! All three cameras on the iPhone 13 Pro have telephoto lenses! The Tamron 28-200mm is 117mm long, so it's only a telephoto after that point. Of course that's a bit of a nitpick. The common use of "telephoto" of "70mm or longer focal length" is well understood.
Nice video Mads. I have always heard to use a ss higher than your the focal length of your lens and I notice you are shooting 1/125 for 200 mm lens. Can you explain why?
I think wide anhles are great for landscape, but they are also really hard for beginners. It's not enough to zoom out to 16mm to get as much as posible in the frame. This usually gives totally boring fotos. When I bought my A7RIII I had no wide angle to start with, when I went to vacation. To my astonishment I took some great fotos with the 28-75 on the wide end. With a 12mm or 16mm you have to think much more about composition, foreground and so on.
I was all ready to give an angry comment.... and being almost 6 mins in.... I misread the video title.... I thought it said why TELE-PHOTO lenses are NOT Landscape lenses. For me I use Tele more than wide.... if anything I think wide is less of a landscape lens because the best results are simple.... and wide angles include sooo much more and its hard to make things that look simple.... Anyways great video.... Glad I didnt have to unsub :)
I loved all of them except the ones with a bit Of out-of-focus parts at the bottom of the frame for the flower images. Had you just cropped out the oof parts they would have been perfect. To me. The oof bits draw my eye in and that drives me nuts. Thanks for the video.
A wide angle is almost required for a lot of hikes where I live (really tight canyons). But I think many of my favorite shots are just from driving around with my 70-200 and watching lighting and trees. Buying that lens really opened up my eyes with photography. You can create great shots out of so much with that lens.
As you say, wide angle lenses are great when the subject is right in front of you. Otherwise, I prefer to shoot with my 70-300 and use the higher end of the focal range quite a bit.
Yes! Most lens go up to f20+.though it gets very dark the higher your F stop is. So you will probably need a tripod and use a very long shutter i.e. maybe 1 second, d3pends on the lighting conditions.
I do not appreciate such titles leading to different thoughts. As Mads says, it is about the scene. With waterfalls I usually use a wide angle lense. Shooting into the distance, no. Not really wide angle.
Your header is incorrect. I would prefer you take (make) photos on a tripod with focus bracketing instead of running and gunning like Tarzan. I love flowers in foreground to be in focus.
When I was a beginner photographer, for the longest time I was always using the widest part of the zoom. Especially when doing landscape. I've since learned that my Tamron 150-600 takes awesome landscapes, especially sunsets. I don't even own a wide angle anymore. 24=105mm on a full frame is enough. If I need wider, I just shoot a panorama, however I usually look at the results and don't like the wide distorted look which looks unnatural. Probably why my 50mm is my most loved lens.
@@MadsPeterIversen I think like your video says, you need to decide what you want to capture. If you are getting a dramatic sky and foreground from you to the horizon then it's time to use one, but the wide lens should never be used for the sake of it. Many landscape photos I like these days are not wide shots at all.
Wide angle are landscape lenses. Not sure what I would actually use a wide angle lens for if they are not used for landscapes. Maybe I should use them for my bird photography. Lol. Sure I can use a telephoto for landscapes. I can also use my macro lens for landscapes but that doesn't mean my wide angle isn't a landscape lenses. I think you should change the subject of the video too any lens can be used as a landscape lense. Not that wide angle lenses are not landscape lenses.
I think wide angles are a bit of a fad in most cases - a bit like those extreme HDR images we used to see a couple of years ago. Anything much wider than 28mm just starts to look weird with the stretched edges and weird distortions.
I find myself in almost perfect agreement with you. IMO wide 24mm and wider should be reserved for tight spaces most of the time. The only point of disagreement I have with you is that those horrid HDR photos have been around for a very long time.
@@richardhale9664 Yeah it's more suited for real estate interiors than anything. I'd much rather have standard zoom or telephoto or even just some standard primes.
Great video as always, Mads. Thank you! This particular video brings to mind one conundrum I always struggle with. That is, shooting directly into the Sun with a mirrorless camera. I always worry about how long I can have the camera on - and sensor exposed - without damaging the sensor. Typically I wait until the Sun has set. At the least, once the image is composed, keep the sensor covered until I am ready to take the shot. I'd be interested in your thoughts on the subject and what precautions you take. I have a feeling I may worry about it more than I need to. Might be a good subject for a future video (wink, wink, nudge, nudge).
I haven't had any issues with that, I generally shoot into the sun during the golden hour with a closed down aperture, so that may be the explanation :)
It'll depend on the lens. Some lenses *will* cause damage quickly, notably the very long focal length ones. I know the Sony 200-600mm G lens warns never to point it at the sun, even momentarily.
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"Or a bird - yes a bird would be good" - this photographer talks about needing a "pocketful of birds" - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-iYbET67VILQ.html
Well you could have a point that all lenses can be used in some way to photograph landscapes or parts in landscapes.......however if i compare the photo's in this video to the ones that you made in the " Ultra impactfull 12-24 ultra wide video" .....i very much lean over to using a wide angle lens instead of using a longer telephoto......it al depends on what you call "a landscape " and what other viewers and i call "a landscape". Is a single treebranch or a boulder photographed in a river with a 500mm telephoto still considered a landscape??? Using your exact way of thinking i could also photograph birds with an ultra wide as also all lenses could be used and call that birdphotography. But would it be considered bird photography by most other photographers ???
For me it would matter if the boulder in the river conveyed a sense of drama, movement or feeling of what it was like to be there. Does the image lift the spirit? The classification is less important to me, but if not landscape then what is it?
@@peterwalsh4964 The statement he uses that "WIDE-ANGLE lenses are not landscape lenses" is not correct to start with if he later on in the same video say's all lenses are landscape lenses. IMHO a wide angle lens ( common description = a lens with focal lenght of 35mm or shorter) is much more often used and sold purposely for landscape photography than any telephoto. Just do a simple test to understand what i mean : If you search images on the web using the word " landscapes " more often you will see photo's made with a wider angle lens.......and much less using a 100-200-300-400mm or whatever longer focal telephoto just showing a small part in the landscape. Thus most photographers posting landscape photo's seem to think very different than Mads Peter. Its only my opinion on this topic.
Lens selection depends on the photographers desired perspective, not the subject or proclaimed photography style. Great discussion point! Thanks for sharing!
Loved the dark moody cloud images Mads as the light coming through the clouds was stunning and really enjoyed seeing your previous images of the Lighthouse in the snow and the image of the highlands in Iceland, those are really special. Definitely you have debunked the myth about what is a landscape lens as you have shown that any lens is suitable when you get the composition right
Nice shots, but is it just me or does the bokeh on Tamron glass look funny sometimes? Some of those flowers in the foreground had really harsh bokeh with some weird edges, not sure im a fan of that. Maybe a combination of cheaper Tamron glass and E front curtain shutter being on? I noticed it with my A7Riii and cheap glass before...
Thank you, MADS. I also tend to use the telephoto when shooting landscapes. I rarely pull out the 16-35. All of the photos in this video are beautiful and if I must pick a favorite, it is the sunset of the group of trees with the bands of pink, orange and blue in the sky. It was worth the long wait.
Great stuff Mads and stunning images. Can't believe you were not only using a non landscape lense but also shooting in "portrait" orientation! Shocked 😲
I am choosing to comment even if the video is 1 year old... Generally, I prefer photos with dramatic clouds, fog or from early morning simply because they are less of them around. Most people go out and take photos midday on sunny days. Only the more serious photographers will be willing to wake up very early to go in an interesting location when the conditions are less than optimal for the masses. These additional efforts result in interesting, unique and more appealing pictures.
The beauty of photography is the artistic freedom. Some basis knowledge for metering is necessary. Also regarding composition. Why this video? I use a wide angle lens (12 to 35mm) ever since Instarted using a Fuji XE3 besides my Eos DSL set. It’s all about creativity people, never about RU-vidrs saying what you should or shouldn’t do.
If you have flat landscape, without mountains, hills, valley, wide angle lens is genaraly useless, because for good photo, you need very interesting clouds. For flat landscape better focal are for example 70-200mm for isolate smaller section. For wide-angle landscape should have varying height.
It took me a lot of years to learn that with photography is that there is no such thing as "wrong". The "rules" are made to be broken... We're supposed to "color outside the lines", just try stuff and see what happens. Sometimes it fails. Sometimes it's a success. We'll never know unless we try. By all means, wide angle lenses aren"t the only lenses necessary for landscape photography... Sometimes a moderate telephoto works better, as you demonstrated quite well here. Sometimes an even more powerful telephoto can be the best choice. It's the same with other photo specialties. "Never" use a wide angle lens for portraiture... Except when that's what works best. "Never" use a polarizing filter on a wide angle lens, except when it creates a delightfully uneven effect that makes the photo "better". Perhaps the best rule for photographers to rigidly follow is to never say "never"!
Thanks for ideas on how to find landscape compositions in flat boring farm country. I've just about given up on finding any good landscapes to photograph where I live.
Nicely explained. Why didn't you do some macro photography on the flowering plants while you were there? I never miss that kind of intimate opportunity.
Brian, I had a similar thought initially, but the more I considered the images, the more I liked it. By blurring the foreground it draws the eye towards the actual subject of the photo in the background. If the foreground was too sharp, I fear it would catch the eye and overwhelm the subject further back. The blurry foreground is working as kind of a reverse bokeh if you will. Ultimately, I saw this as a great lesson in composition. I tend to rely on focus stacking to get everything in focus - front to back - but this is something I'm going to play with myself, as I see it being a useful technique in cases where the immediate foreground is not particularly important to the image/story overall.
@@dougheizenrader2280Doug, I have to disagree, even when I look up to the subject I still see the out of focus foreground like its stick about to poke me in the eyes and it draws me back to the foreground. Maybe because there is too much of the foreground out of focus or maybe if the foreground was not tack sharp but just a little bit sharper it would be better. I want everything in focus so I have a tilt-shift lens just for that reason. I use focus stacking as my plan B.
@@brianbrumfield3330 , ah, the tilt-shift. I have wanted one of those for years! May I ask what focal length you have, and if after using it you still think its the length to get. I shoot primarily landscape, and some exterior architectural. I've vacillated between the Canon TS-E 24mm and TS-E 17mm. Any thoughts on which you would recommend. As for the current discussion, I will put that one down to personal artistic expression and taste. Neither view right, neither view wrong.
@@dougheizenrader2280 Doug, I have the Canon TSE-24mm and if I were to buy it today I would get a longer focal length, maybe a 90mm. The lens I keep on my camera most of the time is a 24 to 70 and I find I am at the 70mm end of the lens more than the 24mm end. I can also say using the TSE lens takes practice. You have to adjust the tilt then refocus, then adjust the tilt some more and refocus again until you get it sharp front to back, using live preview helps with that. Changing the tilt as little as a half degree makes a big difference. It is fully manual and the camera need to be in full manual because the built in camera light meter will be way off so a hand held light meter is recommended. I would recommend renting the lens to see if you like it before buying it. Or if you think you won't use it very often just rent it when you need it. I agree artistic expression.
