Beginner TELEPHOTO MISTAKES to Avoid in LANDSCAPE PHOTOGRAPHY
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In this week’s episode, we discuss beginner telephoto mistakes to avoid in landscape photography. The popularity of telephoto lenses for landscape photography seems to be at an all-time high right now and for good reason! Having a telephoto as a companion to the standard wide angle lens for landscape photography makes perfect sense. And if you were to look up how to improve ones long lens landscape photography on the web you'd be presented with a colossal amount of information to digest, but one thing you seldom hear mentioned has to do with the telephoto mistakes you want to avoid in landscape photography.
In this video, I'll share with you the four telephoto mistakes that I made most often when I first started using these longer focal lengths for my landscape photography and how I solved them. Using a telephoto lens is substantially different than that of a wide angle lens and comes with subtle nuances that must be accounted for in order to get those crisp, sharp photos that we're all after. So, if you just purchased your first telephoto lens or you're looking to get into using a long lens for your landscape photography, I hope this video will provide you with some mistakes to avoid for better telephoto landscape photos.
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What's the longest focal length you use for your Landscape Photography?
300 mm is the longest I carry for landscapes.
300mm, on a crop so 450mm equivalent. Great for picking out distant cliffs and compressing perspective.
I have a 200-600mm but i cant remember if i shoot some landcapes on 600mm.
@@weswheeler3674 Same here! Ever need more reach Wes?
Usually 80mm, cause the XF 16-80 is so convenient. Need to bring out one of the longer lenses more often. Great video as always.
An old photographer’s adage from years ago: go to f8 and don’t be late.
My telephoto lens mistake no. 1: leaving it in my backpack when I have an opportunity to use it...
Wonder which of the two teles you will buy and why. I chose the 55-200: if it is good enough for Andy Mumford it certainly is for me...
I just stumbled upon your channel, and I'd like to thank you. I've been a photographer for over 30 years, your insight, calm demeanor and excellent advice is refreshing and spot on. I did subscribe, and I'm always eager to learn. Have a great day! Steph
I'm in love with the little plant on your desk. The leaves are very evenly shaped and it almost looks like it's emiting light
I purchased the Sony 70-350 for my mirrorless Sony and I'm still trying to find ways to compose images that are interesting and not just "close-ups" of subjects. Thanks for the tips!
Loved it that Nigel Danson appears on top of your google search. Both of you are my favourite Landscape Photographers on UA-cam!
Excellent information, Mike. You're videos are always worth watching, thanks.
All solid advice. For those of us using a DSLR the mirror slap can introduce vibration as well. By using the electronic shutter you can avoid that issue.
The opening scene with birds chirping was superb. Nice place. Yr episode.. very well explained. Thanks.
A big thank you from Seattle. Fantastic video 📸👍!
All of these tips will help me slow down and really think about my shot. Switching from wildlife (flying birds) to landscape is sometimes difficult for me. I am still in that frantic state trying to get everything right in that split second. Great tips!!!
Thanks to your advice I got both sigma 17-50 2.8F and a 100-400 telephoto lenses for my landscape amateur photography
I just started landscape photography and buying things one by one. I generally watch 3 channels. Marks, Nigel Danson, Andy mumfords. Mark is the best one. Down to earth. Honest opinion. Incredible.
Camera hack: I use a plastic zipper seal sandwich bag about half filled with sand, put that one inside a second sandwich bag (for safety's sake)and you can lay that across the top of the camera just before you are ready to fire the shutter. It's a pound or two of extra inertia that helps keep that lens still.
i like this idea. i'm going to try it thanks John!
JohnB Cool idea. I suppose you could use a bean bag if you had it with you.
Thank you Mark, very interesting as always.
And switch to back focus button, so that your focus does not change when you finally press the release. Good points, thank you for sharing.
Amazing video Mark! I just bought a Sony 18-135mm lens for my landscape photography and I love it!
Good tips, Mark! I certainly get home to find soft telephoto shots, these are good to keep in mind...
Having been a Pentax user for just over 40 years I use my 40 year old full frame 135mm lens on my crop sensor camera. Not only does it act like a 200mm prime it is tiny (smaller than most modern 18-55 ) and very light one of my favourite lenses to use... superb in all aspects and all manual lolz.
Great advice. Recently hit a creative wall with using my telephoto lens and this has given me some inspiration to get back out. Subscribed!
Number 4 was best help! Thanks!!
fantastic info! love using tele w/landscapes! 💪🏼💪🏼
You literally helped me fix a lot of my mistakes...thanks alot. Keep making great content 😃
Great video! The reminder not to over-zoom is a great tip.
Great video! Bought a Tamron 70-200mm long ago and had a hard time learning how to better use it. I made (and sometimes still make) all those mistakes sometimes in random order 🙈
Just got my Canon EF 70-200 and exactly all these mistakes, thx to pointing them out 😋🤙
You are just so helpful. Thank you!
Love your videos mark! I’ve learned so much from you!! Keep it up!
Thanks so much Owen!
Super helpful mate. The autofocus one especially.
I often find wind-induced tripod vibrations - that get transferred to the camera body - are a bigger source of mischief than those associated with telephoto lens cap vibrations. A weight attached to the underside of the tripod works wonders for this situation. On a related note, tripod spikes - as opposed to tripod rubber feet - that firmly anchor the tripod to the ground - also helps when the wind is particularly muscular.
Ok. Not a great solution if you are walk a good amount of distance, but I will bring 2 one gallon jugs of water and a three foot piece of rope. hang the jugs under the rope, this will give +/- 13lbs of weight for grounding
Completely agree. Those 4 tips are absolutely true as I came to apply them over the last year.
Totally! Thanks for checking out the Patrick!
Amazing tips Mark and as always love to watch your rich content as you put in all your heart to create these. Congratulations to the winners, Toby and Erin
Many thanks Anuja!
This was awesome. I really related to basically all of them 🙃 Wish I had known these tips before my last shoot, where I used the tele quite a bit....but at least I'll be able to correct them next time now!
Thanks for this. Great information that I can see pertains to my photography issues!
Thanks for checking it out Richard!
I really hope you will make a video about the tele-comparison! I found that from F8 and onwards, I could not tell a difference between the two. The 50-140 was crisper (more contrast) and maybe a bit sharper from 2.8 to F8.
Bought the Fuji 100-400 during the last sale. Finally got it 2 weeks ago and it’s a winner. I have the 55-200 and while the small size is awesome I like the images from the 100-400 more. Using both with my XT 2. I rented the 100-400 twice so I knew what I was getting myself into.
Love the video mark
Thanks a lot for yet another enlightening video Mark. Can you clarify the second point regarding using a larger aperture? From a compositional point of view it can already be challenging to deal with the shrinkage of depth of field with increasing focal length (doubling the FL increases the hyperfocal distance by a factor 4). Using a larger aperture on top of that would be even less DOF. How do you deal with that? Are you simply focus stacking much more frequently?
Hi Mark, it’s funny that you had this video when I had all the mistakes you just pointed out. In fact, I was struggling yesterday using a 100-400 lens… but I was able to correct them all but it took some time to have them all cleared out. The other problem the telephoto lens did was doing a pano. I am second guessing the use of the lens by deciding to do a pano, which a 24-105 can easily achieve, without having to stitch as much files.
Mark always enjoying your videos. I have so much to learn but the journey is fantastic. One thing, as a newer photographer, is many will talk about a lens having a sweet spot in terms of sharpness. Other than taking lots of photos, is there a way to determine my particular lenses sweet spots? Thanks as always
Great advice, thank you!
So friggin true...what he just said, thanks Mark
Wow, thanks so much Mark!!! Some beautiful shots sent into you for that video! Great tips here, I have definitely fallen victim the micro shakes a number of times haha.
Thanks a million Toby and congrats on the win!
Very helpful reminders. Thanks Mark.
Glad you think so!
Mark, I always learn at least (at least!) one thing from every video. You're such a great teacher. Might I make a suggestion after reading through the comments? Could you embed the info on your gear (like the tripod) in the video? So many people are asking. Happily anticipating your next vid. Thanks so much!
Hi Mary! Thanks so much - I really appreciate that. Here is the link for the tripod line that I'm using: stetindenphoto.com/collections/global-elite-photographer-series. If you're looking for a new tripod you can use my promo code to save 10% MARKDENNEY2020C10
Another great practical tutorial. Thank you. Tom UK
Good information. Thank you Mark
Thanks Aaron!
Very helpful! Thank you for the tips. Also, it's good to see you are using Fuji!
Glad to hear it Frank! Love the Fuji!
Sweet spot of a lens can be roughly found using the "largest aperture times two" formula. On my kit lens it's f/7.1, and I tested it just to be sure. The formula was indeed correct.
Great timing on this vid, as I have been thinking of doing something other than wide angle. Mentally planning some sunsets from a high up hiking point, and the possibility of zooming in on spots. Ill let ya know if it works out.
For sure - keep me posted!
Great video thanks for sharing
Great advice about the focus peaking. 🙂
Very helpful tips and a great video. 🤠
Thanks Richard!
Well, i’d surely go for the 55-200mm. I owned both, and also the 50-230mm, which i didn’t even dislike, it was a supersharp piece of plastic. The 55-200 is exactly right.
I use telephoto more and more. U maybe forgot to mention that fujifilm advices to keep the OIS on using a tripod too, the camera detects this. Most camera’s however are not suited for keeping it on. I use the canon 70-300mm L on my sony a7riii, and the 55-200mm on my fuji xt3.
Great vid mark..! 👌🏼
Interesting tip about removing the lens hood, Mark. I suppose this is less critical for handheld telephoto shots. Also about the soft focus: I've noticed that on rare occasions, my camera would miss focus if the focus point was on a brightly lit pinpoint light source (for example, Christmas tree lights). It's happened on two cameras now.
Practical advice, I learned #3, it hasn't flashed me so far. Thanks for sharing your experience.
Glad to do it and thanks for checking out the video!
My mistake is not noticing haze on a hot day when zoomed in to a distant mountain .... never sharp!
Thanks for your suggestions.
Happy to do it and thanks for watching!
Great timing - I've just taken delivery today of a Fuji 55-200 (which I suspect you'll go for)!! Really extremely useful "real world" tips - I'm looking forward to put them into practice - many thanks for a great video!!
Glad you enjoyed it Tony! The 55-200 is great👍
Time to go play around with my new lens!
Thank you. Great tips
Love the videos. I can’t help but hear Jeff Goldblum in your voice!!
I use my XF100-400 with 1.4X teleconverter on my X-T3 at times when I’m trying to shoot cliffs. Btw, I absolutely love my XF55-200.
Lately have been experimenting with 300 vs 200 for landscape. All the tips you gave on what not to do were great but the one that resonated the most was on aperture - using the sweet spot - can’t wait to try this out soon!
Awesome to hear you were able to get some helpful info out this week's video Jackie! Always my top priority!!
Great tutorial. Thank you. All great tips.
Always happy to do it! Many thanks for watching Fred👍
You can keep your camera in manual mode and select the option AF+MF in the menu. This way the AF is active when the switch is in the M position but you just have to turn your focus ring a little bit for the camera to automatically zoom in your focus point and allow you to focus manually. I find this option to be really convenient (even more for telephoto) so I just switch between modes M (with AF+MF) and C.
Great Tips mark, thanks
Thank you Bruce!
Good stuff, Mark. The 50-140mm (Fuji, of course) is a great lens for me for landscape work. Subscribing now.
Nice video. I would like to hear more about focus, especially at night, either through the lens or Live View, I am having difficulties.Also, in this video what tripod and head, mount that you are using. I have a Manfroto and am not happy. I would like an all around head etc, that can be used on a tracker for astrophotography as well.
I always use a tripod when shooting landscapes. However, there are situations when a tripod is too cumbersome - when shooting some action scenes or wildlife, for example. When handheld, the old rule of thumb to avoid shake is to set the shutter speed at 1 divided by the focal length; i.e., a 200mm lens handheld should have a shutter speed less than or equal to 1/200 sec. To set this automatically for a zoom telephoto lens on my Nikon D850, I set the mode to PROGRAM, and turn on Auto-ISO. The camera will set the correct shutter speed for whatever focal length, and adjust the aperture and ISO accordingly. I shot an air show last year using this technique, and the results were fantastic!
I always double it on my D850, due to the high resolution of the camera
The B roll and ambient footage is looking really nice!
Thanks so much!
Really great advice thank you
Thanks for share those useful tips. Regards
Happy to do it!
TY once again!
Thanks, that was very helpful. I also have the 55-200 fuji lens & am very pleased with the results. I don’t use the tripod often because of the inconvenience & many venues forbid them or make impractical, but I do compensate by bracing myself & using a high iso - up to 1000 or 1600 when shooting wildlife. btw how would I submit photos for these prizes? Great video!
Thanks a lot its really useful
Excellent video that will undoubtedly help improve my results. You must have been peaking at my telephoto images, shaking your head and thinking this poor guy needs some help!
Haha! Glad you enjoyed it Jeff!
Nice video as always; chances are someone has already said this - but... Going out to 200mm (300mm equiv on the XT4) I found it pretty much essential to use electronic shutter. The shutter shock was enough to just take the edge off the sharpness of my vintage 200mm Fujinon. Took the longest time to figure out what was going on. I don't see it at 135mm (200 ish equiv I guess) only with a sharp lense at very long focal length. Maybe all that glass stuck out infront of the camera induces some sort of reasonant vibration - speculating here...
I like this tripod. Which model is it or do you have a link to share? Would like to buy one! Love the video. The aperture info is on point. Thank you
Thankyou for some great tips. Must admit I tend to use the 2 second timer with the telephoto that may explain a lot on some of my images. Thanks Mark. Looking forward to your collaboration with foto tripper.
Thanks so much Alex! I'm looking forward to it as well!
Is it just me, or has anyone else noticed that e-mails from UA-cam alerting us to new tutorials have not been coming through of late. I am subscribed, and the "bell" is set to all.
Over-zooming: guilty as charged! I've done many times in the past, but now I do a few shots in different focal lengths. I ruined some shots in the past because of over-zooming. When I got home, I'd look at those shots and see the impact of the overall scene was lost in the longest focal length. Now, I have options to pick what best suits me in terms of composition.
Excellent, some really useful tips in this video. Mark, I had the XC 50-230 (an under-rated lens IMHO) until yesterday, when I broke it. Camera fell off the tripod. Camera fine, lens not so much! (The mount broke). Anyway, I’m thinking it’s an opportunity to upgrade and I’ve been looking at the 55-200 and the 50-140. One thing the 50-140 has that the 55-200 doesn’t is weather-sealing. Do you have any views on the importance of this in your experience? (My work is mostly coastal, astro and desert). Thanks.
Check out Andy Mumfords comparison of the two lenses. 55-200mm is his choice.
Yeah I saw his video on it which was great.
Thanks, great tips! 👍🙏
Thanks for checking it out!
Very useful Mark. I've made a point recently of not worrying about going up to ISO400 - with modern cameras I think it's really hard to tell the difference - all but impossible at 'normal' image sizes in my experience. Just got a camera that has focus peaking on it so thanks for that tip particularly.
Glad to hear the video was helpful Steve!
Intro is amazing. Nice work Mark.
Many thanks Aman!
Hey Mark thank you for this insightful video...i wanna ask re the fourth mistake is it really a taboo to have a soft focus... even in portraits now i find my self not liking the crispy digital look...or it’s just me
Excellent....!
Very good knowledge sir 👍
one solution to the long lens "slow shutter" is to add a lens support, a video camera long plate, with a foot facing up, to cradle the lens, like a trailer yachts' mast staff, when it's folded; it gives the lens the support, but importantly, allows you to shift the Centre of gravity to the balance point, between the lens and camera tripod thread, to where a long lens foot would be situated.
One other tip, esp. for film cameras, MF in particular due to large mirrors, use the M-up mode, to activate the vibrations, let them settle, then fire the shutter, when everything's calmed down.
OR if you have a mirrorless system, use the Electronic shutter, so the curtain motion is in-lieu of the mirror up mode, done before the image is recorded.
I've still not made a decision on which lens to buy. 50-140 or 55-200? Be interesting to find out what you decide on. Maybe do a little comparison video? ? Thanks for all the time you take to share your passion for photography.
Amazing tips Mark. Can relate to some of them myself! :)
Thanks so much!
Thank you for next great tips for us.
Glad you enjoyed it Brano!
Interesting video, thanks!
Great advice!! Fuji is a great camera the positive is the pixel color arrangement looks better for some reason, so good choice.
Thanks so much - I'm glad you think so!
I only have 2 lens, the 18-55 and the 55-200. Next one will be a wide one but these two can accomplish almost everything and really sharp
I've been using the XF 55-200 for a year now, and it's a really good lens! I know the other one is at f/2.8, but f/4.8 at 200mm is still really good, I would never dream of swapping this lens! (Except for the 100-400) The 55-200 is perhaps the most cost effective lens of the Fuji line up. Keep up the good videos Mark!
Yes - I've been thinking the same thing an honestly don't see a big difference between it and the 50-140mm
And rumour suggests Fuji is to release a 70-300 soon ....
What an amazing video Mark. Superb tips. Recently i bought 70-300 Fuji lens. I faced all these issues. And upset with the lens and returned to Fuji to check if there is a problem in the lens. I am waiting for their comment. Meanwhile I happen to see this video. Thanks Mark. No where these types of practical tips are available. You hold the viewers hand and take them to new heights in photography. Thanks again. But I have a doubt how to lock the auto focus. Please reply. Do we get the collar for 70-300 lens?