Why every landscape photographer needs a 100-400 lens, with special guest Thomas Heaton!
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My name is Simon d'Entremont and I'm a professional wildlife and nature photographer from Eastern Canada. In this video Thomas Heaton and I will share our tips for using long lenses for landscape photography.
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What’s your favorite long lens for landscapes? What show did you get with it that wouldn’t have been possible otherwise?
My RF100-500 has been on 95% for the last 2 years. I might have some difficulty framing up a wide angle shot. :>) I do have a EF24-70 macro that I use for the random macro shot. This was a great colab and a fun watch.
An amateur hobbyist here, just starting to experiment with my new Nikkor 28-400 f/4-f/8. Slow, but not an issue for me, anything in landscape from wide to tele, focussing down to 20cm at 28 and 1.2m at 400 it makes a great macro as well. Yet to find its limitations other than speed. Thanks for a great channel Simon!
Fujinon 50-140mm (76-213eq) f2.8, (105-294eq) f4 with TC1.4, so versatile on my Fuji XT5.
Or the light 70-300mm (107-457eq) f4-5.6 for handheld/walks.
Olympus 100-400mm f5-6.3 IS (200-800mm FF equivalent). Sometimes used with 1.4x or 2.0x teleconverters.
My Canon EF70-200 2.8L III works great for landscapes!
I have been following Thomas for a few years now. Always good. As for me, I look at landscape and wildlife like I would for hunting. You might not see the animal you want, or the situation you want. Sometimes, you many not see anything (Hunting most of the time) at least "on your own hunting" not with a guide. Big difference. Also, for me, I don't have a lot of money, so I buy the best I can aford and use my skill at get the shot rather than relying totally on equipment. I have been "Re-invigurated" by both of you to get back into regulare photography and look forward to moving to Florida for different types of country and wildlife. I'm slowing down a bit at 67, but will keep going!
Simon....You stepped up your game with a fresh idea to interview another great photographer....we knew you could do it!!
Two of my favourite photography content makers on UA-cam, love their work.
Great to hear!
I agree. I really enjoy their content. Two of my favourites. I don’t subscribe carelessly. These guys definitely have my subscription though.
Thomas Heaton seems like the nicest, most humble, guy. His eye is amazing, check out his books. He is my favorite landscape photographer. Nice to see him add wildlife photography.
Couldn't agree more!
Ah, I forgot about this conversation. I look so wooden 😂 You showed some great images, Simon. Maybe you should switch to landscapes too 🎉
Good idea!
Nothing better than listening to to Simon and Thomas talking photography!
Tom + Simon = G.O.A.T.s
too kind!
No contest a G.O.A.T.E.D featuring!!🐐📷
@@simon_dentremontwithout you two, i would not have the motivation to keep getting better as a photographer.
I recently shot one of my best landscapes in the English Lake district using my M43 100-400. We were staying on a caravan park near Keswick in February and there had been a recent fall of snow coating the peaks of the fells in white. It was early morning and suddenly, the sun emerged from low cloud and bathed to peaks in glorious light. There were several distracting items in the foreground that needed to be eliminated so I rushed back inside my caravan and fitted my monster telephoto. So in that instant, I learned much of what Thomas was talking about (chase the light, eliminate distracting elements, include a tree for scale etc.) as well as getting a beautiful shot. I now take a long focus lens with me on my fell walks. Thank you both for a great video.
can we see?
I am also an Olympus/OM System MFT shooter and have two very compact 100-400mm lenses which are FF equivalent to 200-800mm, plus one will take a 1.4x and 2.0x teleconverters, extending to 1,120 or 1,600mm. So, I obviously love the compression of long lenses for landscape shots. I found this video very helpful in so many areas: finding the "picture", following the light, and I especially liked the analogy of imagining if the objects in composition were physical, would they balance or fall over? So very well done by both photographers!!!!
@@gregfeeler6910Yes! There were some valuable points, particularly in that segment of the the conversation, but all throughout as well.
Simon! A great photographer, educator AND interviewer!!! Who knew?!! Totally enjoyable! Thank you! Hope you enjoyed your trip. :)
Bravo, Simon. Excellent conversation. Your questions and Thomas Heaton's responses were really informative. Thanks so much!
I can just see that Gavin Hardcassle fella sitting back with a box of Twix bars, face contorted & telling Amanda to get him a hot chocolate whilst watching you interview the best landscape photographer, with his Chasing Awe book pile gathering dust in the corner 🤣🤣🤣
"Uncle Grumpy" Adam gibbs would probably agree with you and do his best to intensify his misery 😂😂😂payback for being called a "decaying old hippie" no doubt!😂😂😂
Good to see a (very nice) smile on your face, Simon! Do more interviews … you do them very well
Thank you! Will do!
Thanks, Thomas!
Done! ✅
This gave me a ‘fireside chat’ (minus the fireside) vibe. Two guys having a chat and the viewer getting educated with their vast knowledge. Kudos
I subscribe to you both Simon, Thomas is a great photographer and the both of you are absolutely inspirational. Keep up the great work.
Thanks for sharing Siomon and Thomas. Nice to hear your thought processes. For Sony there's the very versatile Tamron 50-400 which also has a reasonable weight. Paired with my 61 megapixel Sony A7R4 it is an awesome combination. It still delivers 26 megapixel images at 600mm equivalent when cropping. I do use some hibrid shooting so finding a sharp lens fast auto-focus is also key.
That's a great conversation! Thanks for sharing that.
Our pleasure!
Superb … discussion + images! Great interview skills on display!
Glad you enjoyed it!
"You should really enjoy the process of being out" is the mindset to have.
Often times when out shooting, many photos does not turn out good, but at least I got some hours of air outside enjoying nature :) Great conversation!
Really enjoyed watching this conversation between a couple of my favorite photographers. I couldn't agree more with the advice at the end from Thomas Heaton, just get out and enjoy the process. I use to get a little frustrated if I didn't get any good photos, but finally realized to enjoy the process. You can't beat a day out in nature, even as an amateur photographer.
Glad it was helpful!
Sometimes it’s was worth it just to get out and enjoy the walk.
Love seing you and Thomas in the same video. You are both great at what you do. 🙂
My favorite crossover episode
As a landscape photographer I found the biggest challenge was the mindset change around camera settings - from shooting with a wide lens, off a tripod, with filters and fairly long exposures, to using an ultra zoom pusing into a subject.
On the wide lens I wanted the spray off the top of waves to be more misty and diffuse a sunrise behind it, with the zoom that spray needed to be a lot sharper and the sunrise behind it needed to more of a faded painted background before I was happy with the shots, but it took me a while to unlearn the lower shutter speed habits, and even shoot down at f2.8 to get the background.
Definitely a mental shift., but fun ... especially when you're shooting timed exposures and pull out a backup body and zoom lens to play with.
Both of you are such a great inspiration for all the new learners out there. Keep up the good work and thank you so much for this amazing video.
Love the video and the tips! My first really long telephoto lens is arriving tomorrow (180-600). im kinda nervous because I've shot less than 135 mm all my life. I'm excited to go try it out though. I've really been using my 85mm and 135mm a lot more lately. It sure does change the dynamic of the entire photo shoot. On that note. Geez, these things get heavy when hiking. 😂
LOVE THIS VIDEO. RECENTLY MOVED TO THE ROCKIES AND LEARNED THE VALUE OF LONG LENS
Great two to see two of the worlds premier UA-camrs and photographers. Great discussion and images. Thank you.
Our pleasure!
Excellent analysis. Great tips and practical advice from two of the best practitioners of outside photography.
Thank you kindly!
Another great inspiring video. Thanks Simon and Thomas
Our pleasure!
Many thanks Simon and Thomas: Crucial points to enhance my/our photography! Greetings 🇨🇭
You two would make a great team.
I sometimes use my 150-400 f/4.5 for landscape when I am into wildlife. But without a tripod (also not for wildlife). That's one of the big benefits of OM System / Olympus - the IS is just amazing. Tripod is only used for time lapse or really long exposure shots.
brilliant. a great shift in thought towards landscapes. time to grab that long lens out of the bag! thanks both!!!!
Glad you enjoyed it
Love seeing you two together, my 2 favorite photographers! You make a great team, would love to see more of you two together out in the field in the future.
Maybe one day!
This is amazing. Having a conversation with another great photographer and exchanging experience is a great way for everyone to gain valuable knowledge. This sometimes is a better way to learn rather than having one to explain to the camera. Even though we all appreciate your other videos too, Simon. I could watch converstions like this for hours.
Loved the Q&A format. Much more ground covered than typical since there was no need to create video montages.
Glad you enjoyed it!
LEGENDS!!!! 📸
Thomas: Get out, just be outside!! There ya have it!! Awesome set of videos from you guys in this beautiful setting!! Thanks for taking us along.
What a great symbiosis of two acknowledged specialists in different fields working together!
Loved this format! I hope you'll give us more of this type of content -- intelligent conversation about photography.
More to come!
Great video and great especially for me, I just picked up the EF 100-400 f4.5 - 5.6 same as the one Simon has in the video. Thanks guys!!
Great video, I have been following Thomas for years. ThanksSimone for taking us along.
Two of the best! 👍
Thank you for another great video and this time with a guest as brilliant as Mr. Heaton. BTW: I threw three (3!) kisses at my monitor when he said the most important word to me in photography, "process." Yes! For me it's all about the process of getting out and seeing what adventure awaits me (although never the type grand as the adventures the two of you have.) Love digital for the instant lessons and of course the instant gratification when I have captured (for me) a good shot (composition, lighting, subject.) And when I have the good fortune of capturing a "5 Star" shot, there is such exhilaration in the "Wow!" factor, as I call it. 1) Process, process, process and 2) practice, practice, practice! Are we not fortunate to be able to have these experiences? Absolutely! Safe travels!
Excellent discussion . Thanks for those insights. 🙏👍
Glad it was helpful!
Very informative discussion 👍
I say, you are both brilliant - thank you for your work! 🙏
Our pleasure!
Informative video from two of my favourite creators. I have always preferred to shoot telephoto for landscapes rather than wide angle. My preference is minimalist photography so the telephoto lends itself better than a wide angle. My wife is also a photographer and we used different systems but had similar lenses. I was finding we were coming back home with very similar shots. On one trip to New Zealand almost 20 years ago I decided just to use the 70-200 for everything. It was challenging at times however I came away with some really interesting images plus much more variety between my wife and I.
I consider the 100-400 an essential lens, especially in Svalbard and Antarctica.
What a Great video!! Two Top Blokes at the Top of their genre passing on info in a way us mortals can aspire to. Many thanks.
Glad you enjoyed it
The meeting of two great minds and photographers, hopefully a Collaboration in the future it was easy to see you both got on and had a great energy together 🥂
I hope so too!
This was great, good information!
Cool video from 2 of my favorite UA-camrs! Thanks
Wow, thanks!
Simon, one of your best. A winning combination of you and another expert photographer. For me, I purchased a Sigma 100 to 400 lens last November for birds mainly. But I can see it’s usefulness for landscapes. I recently used it at 100mm to get a nice photo of the Toronto city skyline framed at the bottom and both sides by vegetation from the Leslie Spit.
I was in the Oregon desert near the John Day Fossil Beds last week and got some great down-the-canyon shots using the telephoto. That little valley we were in was great for some sweeping landscapes but zooming into those canyons got me some really great criss-crossing mountains that never would have come through without the telephoto. Great video! Glad to hear I'm on some kind of right-ish track.
and, you guys....keep frostbite off the 'trigger finger' !
I'll look forward to Mr. Heaton's take on wildlife work, should be something cool (no pun intended)...Simon, I pretty much expect great work, always inspiring!
I would love a deep dive into this topic. I have the R5 and I own 1 lens. The Canon RF 100-500. It’s like a Swiss army knife! I use it for wildlife and macro ish photography. I’ve been in the dark on how to use it for landscape. I can’t wait to put this into practice. Follow the light and atmosphere. Figure out what to exclude and look to balance the elements in the frame. It would be helpful to see this in action with fieldwork and actual photos!
This is a brilliant idea. Great questions and thoughtful answers. Like a podcast.
Oh man, I think following you two around for half an hour would magically make all my photos 1000% better!
Excellent informative & entertaining video! Thanks for sharing!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Prefect timing. Heading to Alaska in less than two weeks. Im predicting my sony G 70-350 will be on my camera more than half the time.
Some of my most favorite landscapes were taken with my 100-400.
Awesome collaboration Simon with Thomas I always watch your videos both of you guys.
Awesome, thank you!
Hands down my favorite lens is my Sony 100-400...and I just noticed that Simon is also a guest on Thomas' channel!
This conversation has you showing the most emotion I've ever seen from you. Awesome.
Fantastic interview. Great poignant questions with excellent informative responses. Thank you for this-very helpful 🙏
Looking forward to more of these conversation like videos, very interesting!
Glad you like them!
Great advises. Most of the time I use my RF 100-500MM 4.5-7.1 L for all kind. Beside that the Rf 24-105 f4 L. Lats time in a Zoo at Denmark I noticed that I had focus problems with the 100-500MM as I couldnot get close to the bars to shoot between it. For safety reasens they place a block before the bars. Used then the 24-105 mm. Greatings Leo
So glad I came upon this video. I was just at Svalbard last autumn and used a Sigma 100-400mm with a Sony A7IV for landscape shots! A lot of those shots were from the deck of a ship. Nice video!
Glad it was helpful!
Okay, no hyperbole... this was fantastic!
I follow both of your youtube channels and it's been fun to watch/listen to you together, because I consider your photographic approaches to be quite different.
Great conversation. While I don't have a 100-400, I do have this range covered between my 70-200 and 150-600. Haven't don't much landscape with the longer focal lengths, but I've dabbled a bit. It does come done to trying new things and experimenting.
Great video Simon. I hadn’t pulled out my 70-200 is ages, but lately I’ve been playing with it a bit more for fun. Love to have that Z 100-400 like Thomas does. 😎📸
Thanks for this! It came right on time as I’ve been contemplating for a while if I wana get a 100-400 zoom lens and I think I’m going to. It’s gona be a lot of fun!
Hi Simon, thanks for having Thomas Heaton as a guest, and great advice that i can use when using my Nikon 80-400mm lens. Getting great compression with Telephoto lenses, what to exclude from the picture and follow the light. Not needing a fast lens for Landscape photography, and not going out on a Blue Sky day. Very beneficial advice from Thomas Heaton, that's Gold. Thanks Simon for this video. 😊
Absolutely!
Thanks Simon ☺️
people always laughed, or 'grimaced' when i hauled along my 600/4.5 on travel shoots, or 300/4.0L with 1.4x.... but, you come home with shots where you have 'distilled' a landscape element that others don't see...or?
always nice to voyez un nouveau video de Simon (i hope that M. d'Entremont forgives my 55 years vieux Français)
Great colab guys!!!
I really enjoyed this video. I enjoy your channel and Thomas's, so this collaboration is very synergistic.
I like to call it longscape. I was out birding with a Nikon Z8 with a 600mm with 1.4 TC, 840mm. I got a fantastic shot of Corfe Castle at 840mm from RSPB Arne, Dorset , UK. The shot was hand held and the foreground was focus stacked. As I say longscape not landscape. Oh, also shot some excelent shots of Avosets in flight.
Great tips 👏👏
Glad you think so!
Cool Video, two of my favourite UA-camrs. As a beginner I´ve been shooting landscape with a Sigma 150-600 lens, mainly because I don´t own too many lenses yet. And I´m mostly outside looking for animals anyway. Thx for the Video and the good advice!
Simon it was great to see you exchanging ideas with Thomas. I follow both of you and it was great to see you together. Great stuff especially for folks just getting started.
Glad you enjoyed it
two of the Most Amazing Guys in the Photography World always great to watch on any Photography you do with the beautiful locations & all the Show Boat Tips, Tricks, Info on every Vlog. 👍😁👍
Wow, thank you!
Another great and educational video as usual Simon, I have been looking forward to this series and your time with Thomas since I saw you were going, and it doesn't disappoint.
Glad you enjoyed it
I'm off to the French Alps tomorrow. My 100-400 was going with me anyway but I may just give it a bit more of a chance now, having just watched this. Very timely! Thanks.
Have fun!
I'm now down to 4 lenses for my old Nikon D300. A 50mm, 105mm macro, 18-200mm and a 150-500mm. Been having fun for years using the telephoto lenses for wildlife and landscape. 👍
What a wonderful episode... to have both of your inputs on photography; Thank you Simon for sparking the creativity hidden in me. Thank you both❤❤
The collaboration I never knew I needed 😊
Thanks for sharing your conversation.
Great video Simon! Good to also see Thomas. Thomas , welcome to BIF !!
I've been shooting with an older Canon EF 28-300 mm zoom wide to telephoto for years. This lens for all its compromises is a beautiful lens for shooting wild life, landscapes, travel... I have gotten images that are sharp, colorful, and just beautiful. I only hope Canon delivers with its new R5 Mark II camera and RF glass. I am looking forward to finally upgrading my 5D Mark II & IV and EF lens.
Brilliant
Oh, and Mr. Heaton earned me a subscription, loved his video about the Svalbard trip.
Great discussion! Heading to Iceland early August and I'll be reviewing this often between now and then.
A great discussion between the 2 of you and very informative. It's great to see 2 pro's sharing ideas and skilled learnings ... thank you. Simon, in the past 12 months I've been fortunate to visit Patagonia, Baffin Island (Canadian high Arctic) and Antarctica. Your discussion has confirmed for me that my own attempts have been the right way to go, but with 1 difference. In most cases I have been shooting a Z9 with the 100-400 S and when the mountains have been somewhat a little too far I have been drawing them further into the frame by shooting 2 and/or 3 overlapping images in portrait mode and then merging them into a panorama. I have been super pleased with the final image. Thanks for another great video. Cheers, John.
Cracking video. I recently purchased the Sigma 150-600mm lens and love zooming in on particular landscape elements or areas of wildlife
I had the chance while in the Navy to visit South Georgia and Antarctica and loved it, digital cameras were not around then so just had a film camera, would love to go back now and fill up my SD card with loads of shots
This is a great video. Ice been using long lens for landscape photography for a long time. My 75-300mm for years now. Just recently aquired a sigma 150-600 c and have been using it for landscape photography. Getting shots I wouldn't get otherwise.
That is awesome!
A great conversation between two of the best minds in modern photography. Thank you both for sharing your thoughts.
Great discussion - many thanks.
P.S it'd be funny to have that Camera Conspiracies chap make a surprise appearance in photography presentations - he'd simply walk into the scene at a random moment, bend down, look into the camera, and say "losers". And then keep walking. 😉
This is a very interesting and useful subject. With two of my favorite UA-camrs, what's not to like!
Wow, thanks!