Tuesday, August 13, 2024

Shooting landscape with a zoom lens

 When you are out there shooting wildlife is impossible not to notice the beauty of the landscape surrounding you and having a camera you will feel the need to go and shoot some pictures. The problem is that all you are carrying is your zoom lens. is it possible to use a zoom lens for landscape?

The answer is yes. 

One of the problems that you are facing is the limitations getting the view that you get when using a wide angle lens such as a Canon RF 16mm or a Canon RF 28mm. While  wide angle lenses are considered the ideal lenses for landscape photography you can still "mimic" that view using a zoom lens. Below you can see an example.

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If you click on this picture and zoom to check the details, you will notice that this picture is sharp from the closest to the further point.  This was achieved by stitching multiple pictures together using the panorama option in Lightroom Classic. 

Here are another examples of a pictures created with this technique.  

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Using a zoom lens you can focus into a particular point of your landscape and still get a good picture. See below picture taking with an EF100-400L using an adapted to be used in a Canon R6.

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A zoom lens should not be considered a limitation to take landscape pictures.


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