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Lens selection depends on the photographers desired perspective, not the subject or proclaimed photography style. Great discussion point! Thanks for sharing!
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 RUclips 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.
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.
My absolute favourite of a lovely set of images is the sunset trees, at 14:50. It is also lovely to see a professional landscape photographer who embraces a gorgeous blue sky at midday.
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.
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!
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 😲
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.
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.
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
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 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.
It’s not that one photo is better than another, it’s more a personal preference thing. Love the burnt orange shades of a sunset. Get the sun in the photo without blowing it all out, even better. 3 shot bracketed x 2 stop’s usually works for me. 16-35, 24-105 and 70-200 covers most of the need’s of my photography ideas. Thanks for sharing again Mads. Stay safe 🇦🇺
I didn't think I would , but the shots with the power pole and the sun leaking through the clouds are stunning. They are all stunning, so maybe I just like the contrast of both the natural and unnatural together.
Mads, when it comes to composition, I think there is no better photographer to be found on RUclips. I had been shooting canola recently. I drove quite a distance to find some focal points and I got some nice shoots, but now I see that you just need a field of canola and some clouds to get amazing pictures. It's always impressive to watch your videos. Thank you.
Absolutely. Landscapes I have hanging on walls include Peruvian mountains taken with a 110mm lens. I used to take so many bad photos when I first got hold of a wide lens because I believed that was what I should be using.
Mads, the rich colors of sunset with dramatic clouds always does it for me. But, have enjoyed the perspective on all lens are useful. I think we all can get hung up on stereo types, even in photography and it can be very limiting in the creativity department. Keep snapping!
Hi,just discovered your page and really liked it as its mostly to do with composition,teqniece and settings and very much less of “gear”.Keep it going.
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)
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.
Loved all the images Mads but the ones with the dark, moody clouds were the best IMHO. In fact, when I saw that first horizontal image with the power line pole and sun rays off to the left, my immediate thought was that would make a great cover for a Brain Eno album. Nature and technology in perfect harmony! Calling wide angle lenses "landscape lenses" and ignoring telephotos is similar to an actor being type-cast for just certain roles. Never limit the artistic tool just because it's "designed" for something else. Great info, tips and inspiration as always Mads!
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.
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.
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"!
I like your style, your colors, your processing, your minimalism often. You are one of only three landscape photographers here on RUclips whose videos I reguarly see. Meanwhile I have both of your landscape ebooks. I learn many of them. I am also a fan of Denmark, I think I was eight times there in my life since childhood, but never in interest as a photographer, because I was not one. Hopefully there will be a next time and then I have my camera with me.
Years back i bought a 16-35 because I got really into travel and landscapes. But I noticed whenever I hiked etc, i'd pull out the 70-200, i absolutely love telephoto for landscape work. Don't get me wrong, wides are great, but honing in on those details is so good. Thanks for this video, always nice to see others opinions on such matters.
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!
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.
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.
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.
Congratulations Mads for your blog, I totally agree with your comments that not only wide angle lenses are used for landscape photography. excellent photos to illustrate us, I would have liked to see what kind of focal length you used, or if all the shots were telephoto. Hector Huppertz
Interesting video. I prefer the sunset shots, but particularly in landscape format. The portrait versions feel claustrophobic with the narrow width and out of focus plants dominating the lower part of the frame.
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...
Great vid. I find myself using much longer focal lengths when doing landscapes than when I first started. Throw a focus stack or two if need be &, = all set.
I liked the photo of the silhouetted trees at sunset, but I would have done a horizontal composition and cropped off the out-of-focus rapeseed plants in the immediate foreground.
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.
I appreciate each of your landscape photograph which brings a different taste and flavor to each of them! I must ask you before telling you what kind of landscape photograph I like is what microphone you used to catch the bird's chirp in the sky the day you were shooting these landscape? To me all the different situations of lighting in different hours of a day have their own interests and essences as depicted to us creating different moods and feelings when we as viewers come across a oblong chunk of reality in its finished form ably presented before our eyes! An uninteresting sky is a diterent to attract attention for any kind of appreciation from even an untrained eye! The cloud obtruction to sunlight makes the dramatic backdrop you need to create the atmosphere and mood and canvas where you present the different layers of elements in the landscape! The overhead sun makes the landscape pretty flat with dark shadow areas under the objects making the landscape almost challenging for bringing a catching impact of light and shade, although sometimes harsh light may convey the roughness of a landscape which is barren and tough for life! The golden hours of the day gives the colors pop very differently in those soft slant lights which pick every detail and grains of the objects in the landscape making it easier to give forms and depth of an object! All these doesn't make a great landscape photograph and requires a lot more to make a photograph a real success! Landscapes are being different I like those which keep a subtle balance and blend of composition and elements with aesthetics of art, if not abstract notional theme, in them! Photography is subtraction and minimalism which makes us not to look for interest in an array of many elements of lost focus in them! Medium telephoto lenses gives the leverage to crop out the elements we don't want in a picture while at the time of framing them without having to lose the clarity etc afterwards cropping the megapixel advantage of the camera and this is probably the main reason why tele lenses are preferred to wide angles! But who knows better than you when to use wide and when telephoto in picturing a landscape? You have used 12mm to 24mm in so many successful photographs but I'm not lessening your experience which tells us to use tele more than wides! Thank you very much for having us a chance to watch and learn the techniques of taking breathtaking pictures by narrowing down a super wide horizons!
Great Photos Mads, I have to admit its hard to pick favourite, however I am drawn to the sunset. I am using a Sony 18-200 SEL 18200 as my go to regular lens for most of my pictures. I also have the Sony SEL1855, neither of witch have filters yet. I am going to buY a polariser & VND 2032 so will be searching through your channel videos for using filters. Your videos are great my friend so keep posting
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!
Amazing results I liked them all. Thank you. There is definitely an art in seeing the potential picture- which I am trying to learn. I was amazed that you were able to get good pictures while handholding in daylight. I was trying to decide if I needed to invest in a camera with in body stabilisation- now I know.
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.
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.
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.
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 :)
I am wondering how you kept the farmhouse out of the photo of the line of trees? Did you shoot from a different angle or does the telephoto bring enough of the open to the right of the trees? Your videos are among my all time favorites, thank you! I appreciate your thoughtful and hard work.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
Wide angles have their place in landscape photography, but i think many beginners (and some enthusiasts) fail to realize the potential of other focal lengths, like a telephoto (70-200) for example, and what it can do for your photography and landscape shots. Generally, when I'm at a location for a while, I use a variety of lenses (usually my wide angle and then my 70-200 to do some detailed shots). So wide angles still have their place, and are more useful than other lenses or techniques (like panos) in some cases, particularly if you need a really wide view in a single shot, but I think they get overused for landscape. Everyone (including myself) probalby used to think that every landscape had to be shot with a wide angle. No, that's not true. Once people can ween them selves of using only their wide angle or only their 24-70 and start embracing a bunch of focal lengths and different lenses for landscape, they can open up a brand new world of landscape photography. And this is important if you feel bored with your landscape photography -- generally shooting the same FL (or type of shot ie. wide angle) will do that. Adding different lenses and focal lengths to your routine varies this and keeps things interesting. To be honest, a few years ago I was looking through my landscape work and started to feel as if I was getting bored with landscapes. It came to be I wasn't really bored with landscapes, but I was bored with all (or mostly) wide angle shots, and that's when I started using my 24-70 and 70-200 especially for landscape, and now I have to say I'm back at it shooting landscapes and loving the shots I'm getting (and you don't have to use a 70-200, you could use a travel zoom or a 70-300-type consumer telephoto zoom).
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.
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 RUclips 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!
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
Any/All lenses can be landscape lenses, I have shot landscapes with 8mm to 800mm lenses, even macro lenses, they all have their place and none are "better" than others. Most of my favorite landscape images were captured with focal lengths between 24 and 70mm but there are many notable exceptions.
Interesting shots. I liked the highlights on the rolling hills @ 7:45. I'm curious, did you accentuate that a lot in lightroom/photoshop, or did those hills naturally get lit that way? Also, are you bracketing your shots for increased dynamic range, or are you just closing things down enough as to not blow out the sky?
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Lens selection depends on the photographers desired perspective, not the subject or proclaimed photography style. Great discussion point! Thanks for sharing!
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 ;)
Amazing crispy sharpness for 125
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 RUclips 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.
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.
pretty much it depends on the kind of story of the scenery you want to project or to share
My absolute favourite of a lovely set of images is the sunset trees, at 14:50. It is also lovely to see a professional landscape photographer who embraces a gorgeous blue sky at midday.
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.
Bingo! :D
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!
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 😲
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.
Thanks a lot, Linda! :)
Yeah, that photo is the winner.
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.
Love those trees on the horizon the atmosphere and light is so beautiful! Reminds me of the rolling summer landscape back home! Gorgeous!
I love them all. How the light can change the same place is crazy. Each picture gives a different vibe and feels like a totally different place.
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
Thanks Jim! Yes, exactly it's about the motive, scene and composition :)
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 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.
It’s not that one photo is better than another, it’s more a personal preference thing. Love the burnt orange shades of a sunset.
Get the sun in the photo without blowing it all out, even better. 3 shot bracketed x 2 stop’s usually works for me.
16-35, 24-105 and 70-200 covers most of the need’s of my photography ideas.
Thanks for sharing again Mads.
Stay safe 🇦🇺
I didn't think I would , but the shots with the power pole and the sun leaking through the clouds are stunning. They are all stunning, so maybe I just like the contrast of both the natural and unnatural together.
Mads, when it comes to composition, I think there is no better photographer to be found on RUclips.
I had been shooting canola recently. I drove quite a distance to find some focal points and I got some nice shoots, but now I see that you just need a field of canola and some clouds to get amazing pictures. It's always impressive to watch your videos.
Thank you.
Check Ben Horne as well
Absolutely. Landscapes I have hanging on walls include Peruvian mountains taken with a 110mm lens. I used to take so many bad photos when I first got hold of a wide lens because I believed that was what I should be using.
Mads, the rich colors of sunset with dramatic clouds always does it for me. But, have enjoyed the perspective on all lens are useful. I think we all can get hung up on stereo types, even in photography and it can be very limiting in the creativity department. Keep snapping!
Hi,just discovered your page and really liked it as its mostly to do with composition,teqniece and settings and very much less of “gear”.Keep it going.
I love the sunset one with the trees, great colours in it
Thank you Mads. I think that it is about time to restart photographing! So encouraging
One of the best landscape photographers on RUclips! Thank you for this amazing video!
I enjoyed the feeling of the video, the shooting pointers, the music, and the lovely scenics. Thank you for sharing!
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)
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.
Loved all the images Mads but the ones with the dark, moody clouds were the best IMHO. In fact, when I saw that first horizontal image with the power line pole and sun rays off to the left, my immediate thought was that would make a great cover for a Brain Eno album. Nature and technology in perfect harmony! Calling wide angle lenses "landscape lenses" and ignoring telephotos is similar to an actor being type-cast for just certain roles. Never limit the artistic tool just because it's "designed" for something else. Great info, tips and inspiration as always Mads!
All lovely images Mads but I’m a sucker for sunsets and the image of the trees @15:00 was beautiful, the colours in the sky were gorgeous👌☀️
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.
You were really lucky by taking the last photo (before bonus) with its beautiful colours! Great 👍🏼
Your photos and point of view are truly amazing, thanks Mads Peter Iversen!
Awesome! That last vertical of the evening with the trees was my favorite! Wonderful! (I love color…)
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.
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"!
I like your style, your colors, your processing, your minimalism often. You are one of only three landscape photographers here on RUclips whose videos I reguarly see. Meanwhile I have both of your landscape ebooks. I learn many of them.
I am also a fan of Denmark, I think I was eight times there in my life since childhood, but never in interest as a photographer, because I was not one.
Hopefully there will be a next time and then I have my camera with me.
Thank you very much for all those kind words! Means a lot :D There is so much to photograph here once you actually find it ;)
Years back i bought a 16-35 because I got really into travel and landscapes. But I noticed whenever I hiked etc, i'd pull out the 70-200, i absolutely love telephoto for landscape work. Don't get me wrong, wides are great, but honing in on those details is so good. Thanks for this video, always nice to see others opinions on such matters.
I took my GFX50R and virtually had the 100-200mm lens (70-200 equivalent ish) all the time on.
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!
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.
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.
Only Mads can make a power line pole look way cool! Nice hair cut.
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.
Congratulations Mads for your blog, I totally agree with your comments that not only wide angle lenses are used for landscape photography. excellent photos to illustrate us, I would have liked to see what kind of focal length you used, or if all the shots were telephoto.
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Interesting video. I prefer the sunset shots, but particularly in landscape format. The portrait versions feel claustrophobic with the narrow width and out of focus plants dominating the lower part of the frame.
Great work Mads - for me the sunset shots were stunning!
Wow…I would have considered the power lines/tower an eyesore, to be avoided. You made that into artwork!
Love your videos mads. Recently back into photography and just picked up a 20mm 1.8 yesterday. Good timing!
The stand of trees at sunset was a great image. 👍🥂
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...
Great vid. I find myself using much longer focal lengths when doing landscapes than when I first started. Throw a focus stack or two if need be &, = all set.
I love the photos with the dark clouds
I liked the photo of the silhouetted trees at sunset, but I would have done a horizontal composition and cropped off the out-of-focus rapeseed plants in the immediate foreground.
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.
Fantastic. Congratulations. I do my post-productiom with Affinity Photo and sometimes with Captur One. Greetings from Bogota, Colombia
The sunset photos were my favorite
I appreciate each of your landscape photograph which brings a different taste and flavor to each of them! I must ask you before telling you what kind of landscape photograph I like is what microphone you used to catch the bird's chirp in the sky the day you were shooting these landscape?
To me all the different situations of lighting in different hours of a day have their own interests and essences as depicted to us creating different moods and feelings when we as viewers come across a oblong chunk of reality in its finished form ably presented before our eyes! An uninteresting sky is a diterent to attract attention for any kind of appreciation from even an untrained eye! The cloud obtruction to sunlight makes the dramatic backdrop you need to create the atmosphere and mood and canvas where you present the different layers of elements in the landscape! The overhead sun makes the landscape pretty flat with dark shadow areas under the objects making the landscape almost challenging for bringing a catching impact of light and shade, although sometimes harsh light may convey the roughness of a landscape which is barren and tough for life! The golden hours of the day gives the colors pop very differently in those soft slant lights which pick every detail and grains of the objects in the landscape making it easier to give forms and depth of an object! All these doesn't make a great landscape photograph and requires a lot more to make a photograph a real success! Landscapes are being different I like those which keep a subtle balance and blend of composition and elements with aesthetics of art, if not abstract notional theme, in them! Photography is subtraction and minimalism which makes us not to look for interest in an array of many elements of lost focus in them! Medium telephoto lenses gives the leverage to crop out the elements we don't want in a picture while at the time of framing them without having to lose the clarity etc afterwards cropping the megapixel advantage of the camera and this is probably the main reason why tele lenses are preferred to wide angles! But who knows better than you when to use wide and when telephoto in picturing a landscape? You have used 12mm to 24mm in so many successful photographs but I'm not lessening your experience which tells us to use tele more than wides!
Thank you very much for having us a chance to watch and learn the techniques of taking breathtaking pictures by narrowing down a super wide horizons!
Great Photos Mads, I have to admit its hard to pick favourite, however I am drawn to the sunset. I am using a Sony 18-200 SEL 18200 as my go to regular lens for most of my pictures. I also have the Sony SEL1855, neither of witch have filters yet. I am going to buY a polariser & VND 2032 so will be searching through your channel videos for using filters. Your videos are great my friend so keep posting
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!
Thank you so very much, Brandon! I greatly appreciate the compliment :)
The colour combo of the midday photo looks great.
Amazing results I liked them all. Thank you. There is definitely an art in seeing the potential picture- which I am trying to learn.
I was amazed that you were able to get good pictures while handholding in daylight. I was trying to decide if I needed to invest in a camera with in body stabilisation- now I know.
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.
@Bernard Yes, that's a great device.
I prefer the dark epic cloud photos by the way, but where it is 1/3 of the frame with more foreground than sky.
I mostly use my 70-200mm because of the tripod foot. I roll to portrait mode and back, SNAP, just like that!
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.
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@@taterandy3958 I dunno what that means ✌️
Like my 16 -35 to include a lot when up close but use my 100-400 all the time for landscapes...its my fave lens for a lot of stuff.
Wow this is diomond!
The video quality is super good while vlogging, what camera is that?
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.
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 :)
I am wondering how you kept the farmhouse out of the photo of the line of trees? Did you shoot from a different angle or does the telephoto bring enough of the open to the right of the trees? Your videos are among my all time favorites, thank you! I appreciate your thoughtful and hard work.
Mads stated in the video that the farmhouse would be cloned out in Photoshop.
@@dougheizenrader2280 Thanks Doug, I totally missed that! Probably so engrossed in the image it slipped past me.
This is why I am loving my new Nikon Z 24-120mm f4...wide enough if I need it and zoomy too. :)
Another great video brother, love your enthusiasm.
This gave me an idea for a shot I could use with a favorite tree of mine!
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.
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.
@@MadsPeterIversen Sure Mads, I will check it out.
Love the colour of the fields.
Thanks, Mads. I' am thinking of selling my wide angle lens, just don't want be restricted and miss more great scenery.
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 kind of liked all of the images. Very nice.
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.
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.
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?
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Thank you Mads.. Absolutely brilliant, always an inspiration
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.
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.
Wide angles have their place in landscape photography, but i think many beginners (and some enthusiasts) fail to realize the potential of other focal lengths, like a telephoto (70-200) for example, and what it can do for your photography and landscape shots. Generally, when I'm at a location for a while, I use a variety of lenses (usually my wide angle and then my 70-200 to do some detailed shots). So wide angles still have their place, and are more useful than other lenses or techniques (like panos) in some cases, particularly if you need a really wide view in a single shot, but I think they get overused for landscape. Everyone (including myself) probalby used to think that every landscape had to be shot with a wide angle. No, that's not true. Once people can ween them selves of using only their wide angle or only their 24-70 and start embracing a bunch of focal lengths and different lenses for landscape, they can open up a brand new world of landscape photography. And this is important if you feel bored with your landscape photography -- generally shooting the same FL (or type of shot ie. wide angle) will do that. Adding different lenses and focal lengths to your routine varies this and keeps things interesting.
To be honest, a few years ago I was looking through my landscape work and started to feel as if I was getting bored with landscapes. It came to be I wasn't really bored with landscapes, but I was bored with all (or mostly) wide angle shots, and that's when I started using my 24-70 and 70-200 especially for landscape, and now I have to say I'm back at it shooting landscapes and loving the shots I'm getting (and you don't have to use a 70-200, you could use a travel zoom or a 70-300-type consumer telephoto zoom).
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.
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 RUclips 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!
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.
@Mads Peter Iversen, are the processed photos you show in your video taken hand-held as you have depicted it to be ? Looks surprisingly sharp
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 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 am attracted to midday light and all that goes with it.
Then you'll love next week's video 😁
Question: in what menu point can you show these lighting stripes in The A7 III?
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.
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.
I love my 28-200mm tamron, such a versatile lens.
Any/All lenses can be landscape lenses, I have shot landscapes with 8mm to 800mm lenses, even macro lenses, they all have their place and none are "better" than others. Most of my favorite landscape images were captured with focal lengths between 24 and 70mm but there are many notable exceptions.
Interesting shots. I liked the highlights on the rolling hills @ 7:45. I'm curious, did you accentuate that a lot in lightroom/photoshop, or did those hills naturally get lit that way? Also, are you bracketing your shots for increased dynamic range, or are you just closing things down enough as to not blow out the sky?