7 ways a 70-200mm LENS will IMPROVE your PHOTOGRAPHY
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- Опубликовано: 16 июл 2024
- 7 reason why you need a telephoto lens and how it will make finding compositions easier and improve your photography faster.
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#photography #telephoto #70-200
Love the "bokeh balls" beach shot and the "island" in the fog.
Brilliant visual explanation! Directly to the point. You're really taking money out of all those Udemy authors that helplessly trying to teach people photography in 15-hours courses. You just did it in 15 minutes. Thanks a lot for such videos. It's worth to be saved to the favorites for the future reference.
Thanks so much
I love the point you made of leaving something to the imagination; not telling the whole story. I'm gonna try this in my next production
The two photos around 11:36 are absolutely splendid!
Thanks... they were lockdown finds in my lightroom catalogue
Really glad you addressed this subject and you backed your claim up with stunning photos. Whenever I watch your videos I get the feeling that I have learned something. Thank you!
Haha, literally just got a 70-200 last week and have been scouring RUclips for a few videos this morning, then this pops up! Good timing :)
Have fun messing around with that bad boy!
You need someone to tell you how to use your lens. How about using your imagination?
@@Arcticfox7 lol
Your composition videos are really helping me understand why my images so often suck, and what I need to practice to change my game. Thanks.
I've recently discovered the joys of using a long lens (actually, 18-135mm on APS-C) and I really love what it does with sunsets if you have an interesting subject in front of the sun. Mads' videos and photos inspired me to try it, and I think it's fantastic how the two of you cover the same topics in your videos but still both remain original and provide fresh insights. Thanks!
I love my 70-300 and would say it’s the lens I use most, and mostly at the latter end of the zoom scale 👌
Amazing how you can find a new picture within a picture with a long lens! I use a Tamron 70-200mm f/2.8 G2, and this video has inspired me to try out new things! Thank you so much! Love your work!
I just love the small details that you add to your videos, 6:49 adding the moving clouds next to the cropped frame was simply amazing
Glad you noticed 👍🏼
I personally love the compression of layers you can achieve with a longer lens. It can create such a unique effect sometimes. Nice video Nigel!
It's amazing how fulfilled and happy I am watching your photos and videos. I just realize that it is what I want for my life. Thank you for that!
This is awesome, Nigel! I'm still trying to find my footing in photography and feel that Long Lens shooting seems to be where I'm most comfortable. You're right...it's very versatile and many stories can be created with the different kinds of images captured. I am working on my Nifty Fifty, but it just doesn't seem quite as exciting, but I do think that to have a certain mastery in many kinds of photography is important...for me. Thanks so much!
Thank you so much Nigel. I always use 24-70 for landscape and a friend of mine said I should have 70-200. ---Still I only used 24-70 as I thought only that can catch wide angle good vista shots. I was so wrong! Use long lenses to capture drama---thank you I will remember that and this clip is SO convincing!! Now I can't wait for my next outing with 70-200!!
I regularly use a tele for landscape (and other) images; have been doing for over 30 years and I love the possibilities. Thanks for helping me understand that I've been at least trying the right thing all these years! Thanks Nigel. Excellent content as always.
I don't have a 70-200, but some of my favorite shots I've taken were with my 100-400 or 70-300. Telephoto landscape photography is underappreciated imo.
Brilliant! Thank you! - So many great examples which illustrate that the higher level of abstraction and mystery you can get with a longer lens can create photos that are much more captivating than well-made, well-composed wide angle shots revealing the entire context! The invaluable artistic surplus really mostly comes from leaving things open to the viewer's imagination. Hats off!
Whenever I'm shooting Wide, I wish I had my Teli. Whenever I have my Teli, I wish I was shooting Wide. Can't win.
This reminds me why I always carry both on me! Thankful my 20mm is super small
And this is why u carry both or use a multi purpose zoom. Cant win all.
Shoot wide for composition then take out the teli and shoot the individual points of interest and stitch them together with amazing detail and months of work. :D
Might be an idea to switch to M4/3 then you can carry both...
@@johnwatt6863 I rock a GH5! ;)
PS: I make the most of that little sensor with some heavy post color manipulation. Check it at KelownasGoodStuff on FB and IG.
Always a pleasure to follow your channel, plenty of good tips, and boosting our creativity for landscapes.... Thanks for all !
11:30 looks like a masterpiece painting. Just lovely...
You sir, are a gift. Bless you!
Just yesterday evening I went to a bluff overlooking the Straight of Juan de Fuca with the expectation I would be able to get good sunset shots to my left and photos of a Bald Eagle in a tree to my right. The lens I used for about 80 % of the many shots I took was a 55-250mm on a crop sensor camera. I needed every bit of the long end to get good shots of the eagle. The sunset with an amazing array of shapes in the clouds had me busy working the zoom from end to end and many places in between. As you said in this video, the wider shots were really good, but there was so much going on, it really helped to be able to get close to some of the cloud formations to keep potential viewers from being overwhelmed with everything there was to see. With a 200 or so foot drop right in front of me, the clouds 20 or so miles away and the sun millions of miles away, i needed a telephoto zoom to be able to make compositional changes.
70-200mm is my all time favorite lens, If I had to choose one - that would be it. From landscape, to portraits and even "macro" shot when zoomed in. I recently picked up 18-35mm and it is a completely different beast I enjoy learning with
You gave semi macro shots one of your examples. It's worth pointing out that you can still use extension tubes with lenses of this length to reduce minimum focus distance.
or just crop
Lovely perspective of adding drama and creativity. I'll take out my long lens and have fun with it. Thanks Nigel, really enjoy your great tips!
I just bought my first 70-200 a few weeks ago so I'm still in the learning stage. Great video Nigel!
Keep up the great work Nigel. As a newbie, I've learnt so much from your YT videos and also your Masterclass series - highly recommended!
Really enjoy your thoughtful, well delivered videos. Inspiring and educational!
Nigel, you’re very good at teaching this stuff, your enthusiasm is infectious! Now shopping for a long lens!
I really related to this one Nigel. I treated myself to the Nikon 70-200 just before a 3 week cross country trip last summer. After 2 days it was the lens that I left on my camera strapped in the seat beside me. As to hints: I have a Nikon 200-500 which is a beast to carry. I tried the Black Rapid sling which was a pain to rig and a bigger pain when it came time to use the tripod. Just switched to the Peak Design Slide. It carries the camera/lens beautifully and is a cinch to put on the tripod. BTW - I’ve taken contest-winning closeups of frogs in my water garden at 500mm with this lens.
Just got the 55-200 for my XT2, I'm pretty excited to get out and use it more! Probably not a tip that's gonna blow anyone's hair back, but using a 10 second timer, (instead of my usual 2 second timer), seems to help with vibration reduction when using a tripod :)
I have just acquired a 70-200 f / 2.8 for my Z7 and look forward to getting started using it for landscape. So your video was really helpful and inspiring. Thanks, Nigel.
Thank you Nigel.. As always your advice is very well received and lets learners like myself who struggle on a daily basis with various photography ideas.. I bought a new lens a couple of months ago. I bought the Tamron 17/28 for my Sony A/7/3 but now find that I'm using my Sony 28/70 90% of the time. learn by costly mistakes seems to be my forte but at least I do take notice of my mistakes and learn from blokes like yourself and others.. Please keep up your tutorials Nigel. Stay safe Mate
That foggy tree island is absolutely stunning
Superb video Nigel, I have to agree with everything you’ve said re the 70-200, been using them for over 20 years, wouldn’t be without them. Cheers.
Thank you Nigel - this was really helpful to shift my thinking. Many thanks!
Always helpful, looking forward to getting out more! Thank you ND.
Thank you so much. Your videos help me get thru this hard times and made me dream again about photography.
I have a 75-300 and i absolutely love it. The compression of longer lenses is so much better than wide angle ones (my opinion).
Great video. Finally a video that makes a case for the long lens.
I have the 70 - 200mm and love it. I find it especially useful for Street photography, particularly if, like me, you enjoy the genre but find it a little daunting!
Excellent tips as always Nigel! Next Sunday looks epic! Looking forward to that! All the best!
I enjoyed this video. You have showed a way to be more creative when using a long lens. Thanks for the inspiration.
My Tip: crank up that shutter speed if hand holding a long lens. I lost so many photos early on because of this. The rule is 1/focal length, but I have found to go higher if you are not steady.
Angela Witmer unless you have a stabilized lens and body 😛
Don't forget crop factor either. 1 over 1
5 focalength already is better. But at 200 and beyond I always tripod or find a ledge
IS: Understandable... Have a nice day
Great storytelling coupled with expert video production. I’d really be interested in understanding your tools and work flow. The way you communicate verbally and visually is brilliant.
Amazing video, amazing tips and amazing photos!!!! thanks!!!!
Got a 16-35 two years ago cause I thought landscape was best done wide. Love the lens and still learning how to use it. This past year I got the 70-200 and absolutely love the different perspective it creates. Now I need a second body so I don’t have to keep switching lenses in the field. Does one ever get rid of GAS. Love your videos
One of your best ones so far! Keep it up!
Nigel, your composition videos (such as this) have been extremely helpful to me. I have been a terrible amateur photographer for many years, and I am finally beginning to understand what it means to shoot a composition, not a scene. In particular I really loved your wide-angle video, and I now have clarity on why some foregrounds look terrible, while others look good. Thank you for sharing your hard earned wisdom!
Thanks David - glad you find them useful.
@@NigelDanson Here is one telephoto shot that I did get right, without truly understanding why: 500px.com/photo/46448634/Sossusvlei-Dune-Nambia-by-David-Skok?ctx_page=1&from=user&user_id=1306745
I concur with sincere appreciation
your video editing is massively underrated. always such a good job in every aspect of your production.
Thanks so much!
Thanks Nigel - really useful video and appreciated. Won't be travelling to any mountains for a while so am going to open my eyes to local shots that would benefit from using my long lens. Excellent video as always, thanks for the time and effort you put into these !
simple, concise, tasteful, and classy. outstanding!
Great tips. Thank you. You’ve inspired me to use my 70-200 f2.8 a lot more than I have to date.
Nigel, you never disappoint. Well done Friend. Next Sunday looks to be another good one. Thanks for sharing.
I have a 70-200 that I haven't been using. I'm more of a flower photographer for which I use Lensbabies. I'm going to drag out my 70-200 and do some landscapes. I love the difference you get in your photos by using yours. Excellent video! BTW, I'm always learning from your videos!
Try shooting flowers with a wide open aperture at 200mm. It makes a really nicely compressed background. Some of these lenses aren't very sharp wide open though, so search what the optimal F stop is for your lens to find a balance.
The 70-200 is one of my go-to lenses. Great bokeh for macro shooting!
Really helpful video. Have found it a very handy lens to have but as a relative newcomer to photography did wonder if I was leaving too much out of the frame by using the longer lens. So this has given me confidence to keep the 55-200 lens on my camera for some landscapes and to think more about the composition aspect of not including too much in a shot.
Another interesting and informative video. I shoot street photography but love seeing a great landscape photographer at work. I use some of your approaches in my own genre - like using longer lenses to cut out the commotion going on in the public space and to change things up visually from time to time.
Beautiful shots! Thank you for the tips.
Nigel, I am not sure how I came across your video but I am glad I did. I think the number of comments is testament to the quality and straightforward presentation of your video and, having subscribed, will watch a lot more I hope. Motorsports is my bag and, notwithstanding the lack of any events at the moment, I was losing motivation. I have a 70-200mm and I will get out now in the hour we have for exercise to try to pick out some scenes in my area.
Very well articulated and picked up a couple of gems. Thank you.
Very good. What i like in your videos ist that you always show great examples.
Thank you! I just bought the canon 70-200mm
It’s so versatile
I love the bridge and the "floating forest" shots
Thank you for great and down to earth paced videos. Cheers.
I always seem to gravitate to my 70-200 lens. I always have a hard time with very wide angle lenses. I guess I like to get tighter composition and isolate pieces of a scene.
I really enjoyed this video. You packed a lot of great information into a short presentation.
Really lovely video. Calm and really nicely edited and put together. Thank you!
Thanks for the different perspective
Fantastic video like always, very informative. Looking forward to next weeks video.
Always come back to your channel, great video 👏
Great video. Awesome content. Keep it coming. Helped a lot for me to decide on one single lense to carry when I go for landscape shooting.
Really useful info. I am guilty of always carrying my 70-200mm f4 but never using it while the wide angle is on. You’ve made me realise I could take a bit more time and just consider the possibilities more. I was hoping for a Z equivalent which would lose the adapter need but it’s not a priority. I’d also say depth of field at f4 isn’t bad. I did a portrait workshop just to do something different and expected to use a 24-70mm f2.8 but my 70-200mm f4 was far more enjoyable to shoot with and I got some great shots.
Great vid and pictures !! I feel like long telezooms are often disregarded in landscape, but to me, I think that wide angle is "about the scene" whereas longer focal lengths is more "how we perceive the scene" by isolating what matters ot us. And it's where our eye and personnality shines the most, by picking smaller scene in epic vistas or making an epic shot out of a dull and flat field. It's more immediate but I think, by it's simplicity, it's easier to connect to the image too.
Thanks for this video. I'm just discovering how to use my 70-300 for landscape photography, is a new amazing world.
Great tips, thank you! I just got my first 70-200 in anticipation of a big trip I'll be going on soon, and having reach like this feels like it'll have a bit of a learning curve. Thanks for the head start!
Brilliant video! Thank you!
Excellent examples of telephoto lens use for landscape! Thanks for the hard work.
Subscribed. Thank you for the value in this video. It’s tremendous.
Thank you for this video! I've been trying to decide what lense is going to be able to do I am wanting to shoot and this video answered my question if 70-200 would be right for me
Great video Nigel. Great inspiration to get the 70-200 F2.8 lens out of the closet and do some landscape photography.
Back in the day, I usually used a 90 or 135 mm lens on my 35mm full frame film cameras. Zooms were in the furture but I always felt more comfortable with this range. I even shoot a quite a lot of landscape panoramas with my 500 mm crop digital camera.
From the outset I have been a fan of this zoom range. In the pre-dawn era (i.e. before 2000) i owned a couple of versions of Nikon's 80-200 mm f2.8 lenses, then later upgraded though a couple of versions of the 70-200 mm f2.8 finally settling on the more modern VR model. Problem is, the older I get the heavier this lens gets. Several years ago I acquired a Fujifilm 50-140 mm f2.8 which gives me the same perspective in a smaller, lighter package. Optically it is fantastic. Now as much as I love the Nikon lens, the reality is that it has not been out of the house in more than 3 years. As you point out, the range of this zoom lens is great for picking out details, whether it is in the wilds, or doing candid head shots at events like Renaissance Fairs.
Excellent video and stunning pictures, as usual !
I love both my wide angle 14-24mm and my 100-400mm for dramatic landscape pictures, but the weight very often makes me go for a walk without them.
Recently found a not too expensive 85mm f1.8 is a lightweight option well worth bringing out for a little walk in the woods.
Note how many nice pictures in this video was shot around 82-90mm !
These were some really good points! :D
Very good presentation. I bought my 55-300 with the idea of reaching out for wildlife but discovered the close-up capability you mentioned and the advantage of isolating a scene. Also panos with portrait orientation have been good. Although I understand your focus on simplicity in an image I do not think a complex image that calls on the viewer to work should be ignored. It is, of course, difficult to compose but can suggest an interesting story.
great video in other way not only to have 70 200 lens but to find picture in the picture , thanks for the video man
No problem!
Thank you for sharing these tips, Nigel. Fantastic photos, and invaluable info,
Glad it was helpful!
Amazing photography! Really enjoy your videos!
You make a great case for the long lens in landscape photography. Great vlog.
Such excellent information. Very talented. Thank you so much for the video. Truly amazing .
Hi Nigel, glad I came across your video, especially since my 70-200 f2.8 arrived yesterday. Beautiful pictures and ideas you have. Great term I just learned, “bokeh balls”, awesome!
Great video Nigel. Thanks for the tips.
WOW! The tree photos, just wow.
Wow, that video gave me so much inspiration for my 70-200 and my 200-600mm! Didn’t expect that :) thanks
70-200/2.8 is a killer lens and I use it 99% of the time. ❤️❤️❤️❤️ Thanks for a great video as always.
Totally agree with wnat you are saying, my go to lens for landscape and a lot more besides, 55/200 for Isolation/compression wonderful
Great session. Just ordered the Z 70-200m and was a little worried I overreached a little. Feel much better now....Thanks!
Nigel, I really look forward to your videos, and I would love to bump into in The Lakes sometime. Great video, especially sharing the photos of your family and the lovely Pebbles!