Beginner WIDE ANGLE MISTAKES to Avoid in Landscape Photography
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In this week’s episode, we discuss beginner wide angle mistakes to avoid in landscape photography. I think without a doubt a wide angle lens is by far the most popular choice of lens to start with for landscape photography, but there are some drawbacks and mistakes to avoid when using these ultra wide focal lengths. The field of view when using a wide angle lens is such a stark departure from what we see on a daily basis with our eyes that it can make the effective use of such a wide focal length challenging in certain situations.
In this video, I share with you the most egregious wide angle lens mistakes that I made when I first began using a wide lens for my landscape photography and how best to solve for them. Now I haven't completely solved for all of these as some of them still creep into my workflow from time to time, even during my most recent on-location video just last week. But being aware of these mistakes is the best first step in the effort to fully eradicate them from your wide angle landscape photography!
So the next time you're on-location and reach for a wide angle lens I hope that some of my mistakes will resonate with you and you'll be able to solve for them much quicker than I did. Thanks for watching! -Mark D
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What was your first lens?
Canon 24-105 Zoom, was nice but heavy :)
18-150 mm EF-M and the 22MM f/2.0 EF-M for the canon M50
Tamron 70-200mm G2 for my nikon Z6
First lens was my 18-55mm that came with my camera. After that was a 70-300mm
My first lens was a pentacon 50mm 1.8 that I bought used for 30 bucks. That's what started my (still small) vintage lens collection :)
i prefer the un-cropped lighthouse picture, it depicts the loneliness of the lighthouse, the Moab one was great wide too.
I was going to say the exact same thing about the lighthouse. It added emotion.
Awesome video again! I love how you make yourself “vulnerable” by being upfront about the mistakes you made. Thank you for being yourself.
Thanks for doing this video, Mark. I enjoy learning from your mistakes. "Scene stuffing" is something I always try to catch myself from doing when I shoot ultrawide.
I just put in practice the "get close and embrace the distortion" motto, last week when shooting with a 16-35mm lens. A game changer for me. This video just reassured me that I am on the right path of getting better while enjoying what we do.
Glad to hear it was helpful!
Dear Mark, thank you for this video and especially for the nice set of landscape examples! I loved them! As for the lighthouse picture, I would do exactly opposite cropping: I would cut off the left part of the frame almost up (or up) to the place where the road starts being visible after passing the trees... I mention this just to confirm that 1) wide angle shooting gives us space to fine-tune the picture even in the case it was not framed perfectly and 2) photography as an art is about personal taste of photographer and his vision and mood at the moment of shooting and processing. Many thanks for your work again!
I love your examples and listening to your thought process while making corrections. Great video!
The best channel ever where learning from one's mistakes is the best way to improve one's photography skills
Your honesty and passionis appreciated. Thanks for sharing your expereince.
Love the thoughtfulness put into your set design for theses videos.
Really appreciate that Chris - thank you!
that flatline tip, absolutely great! thank you for your generosity and willingness on sharing these tips Mark
Thank you for this video for many reasons as I am reentering the world of photography again with fervency. Another thank you for the awareness that this video's generosity and how the thumbs down is so bogus and arbitrary on so many people's channel. This video was informative, kind, honest and generous - thank you - liked and subscribed.
Thanks for sharing this Mark! Great video!
Thanks Mark, another great educational video. I gain knowledge from each video and often think about methods you suggested while framing for a shot. Like spending more time to find the best composition.
I’m learning so much from your videos. Thanks very much Mark.
Thank you so much. I just bought my 17-35 mm Nikkor lens. These tips will help me making better photo.
Thank you so much~! This really helped me get things in the right perspective :) I am just a hobby photographer but I wish to learn more. Subbed :)
Another great informative video Mark. my first wide zoom was a Tamron 10-24mm. Nowadays I have started taking my tablet with me, especially when I am away for a couple of days and what I like to do is get to the area of interest as early as possible take an extreme wide angle shot or two, then send the image to the tablet over the built in wi-fi connection between tablet and camera, this way I can examine the image on the bigger screen (10.1" tablet compared to the 3" on the back of the camera) then begin to roughly break down the wide view image into smaller individual images, so when the light is better and it is time to take the actual photographs, either by zooming in with the wide-angle zoom lens or changing to a bigger lens. Although in saying that, I sometimes forget and still try to cram it all into one or two images.
There ideas you mentioned resonated with me. You talk about leaving your wide angle lens at 16mm and using it as a prime. I recently bought a 15mm prime, manual focus lens and I'm afraid it will make me lazy. Lock the focus on infinity and take the picture. I don't think that is good. The second thing is about not showing parts of what you ae seeing. I tell clients when I'm shooting their houses that I am really good at not shooting things. It always makes them relax. The third thing is I feel locked into landscape rather than portrait and I need to get over it.
Great video. Thanks Mark!
I always learn something new from your videos! Thank you!
I'm not a beginner but I made a HUGE rookie mistake yesterday evening photographing the sunset...LOw to the ground, long exposure over water & rocks...New landscape tripod with no center column...GREAT for this to the ground shots....BUT...Make sure to look carefully that your TRIPOD LEG isn't in the shot! LOL The legs on my new tripod are a bit longer than my older tripod so I'm still getting used to that. Plus I was under exposing the shot a bit to save the highlights so the shadows closer to me were a bit dark in the view screen. Luckily I saw it when I was looking at the shot while getting ready to go to the next shot. I was able to reset and take it again!
Just noticed the Sony Sport Walkman on the desk! Hahah. Love the vids. Keep it up.
Nice video, relaxed and to the point. Also good point with the composition and trying to put too much in the picture, less is more...never thought about it
Love your videos Mark, this one has some really good advice as i'm always struggling to get good compositions with my zeiss 22mm lens. The low down approach looks very interesting for making scenes look more grander than they actually are, will definitely be trying this one for sure.
You have explained in a simple way how to use wide angle lens and make landscape photography look really beautiful.
Very informative, thank you! I haven’t liked the images from my 16-35mm and I think I’ve been making these mistakes. Going to use it more now and probably will be happier with the results 👍🏻
great video, i really appreciate learning from your shared observations and tips every week, thanks Mark.
Thanks so much!
Awesome information... Thank You!!! Love your videos...
Great information Mark!! As always, thanks for sharing! 🙂
Thanks Patty!
I love shooting with my Tokina 11-16mm lens and usually stick to 11mm. I get some great results, but do find that I have the same issues with trying to stuff too much in. Also, when I shoot the night sky at 11mm, it shows off the distortion on the edges and there's no easy way to fix it, so i need to crop it.
Learning a lot from you Mark. Wonderful videos and extremely helpful insights on a number of topics!
Music to my ears - thank you Jerry!
Very helpful video. Thank you for the tips.
With this video you have earned my subscription. More tips for beginners please, great content! :)
Hi Mark. It was first time when I saw your video and must say that the amount of knowledge is amazing! I have Nikkor 10-20 ultra wide lens and I love it. It gives me a freedom to show exactly what I want to show. But there are many traps using such lenses which you mentioned in this video. I need to watch your other videos. It looks like I finally found the channel which contains usefull informations with examples. looking forward for next videos. Cheers
As always really well put across and very valuable tips, many thanks Mark.
Thank ya Ross!
Great video. 2 takeaways for me. Edge patrol and the sign on the wall that says Slow Down.
Fantastic video Mark!....added the bracketing video to my list of videos to watch...TY!
Thanks so much - hope you enjoy it!
Great vid, Mark. Yes I too thought "wide angle = wide area" capture only. Much more selective today.
Confronted by a scene that can't be captured with a single exposure, some folks stitch several exposures together to form a panorama. I learned the hard way that it doesn't work to make a panorama shot with exposures from a wide angle lens. The wide lens introduces distortions that make it impossible to use them for a panorama.
Yup. I've successfully stitched images at 35mm FF equiv, but anything wider than that and your pano program either gives up or the results are very poor. (Tip: Taking portrait orientation images work great for effective panos.)
Enjoy your video. Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge.
So true! I recently purchased a wide-angle lens 10-20 (15-30 in 35mm equivalent) and found that most of my first pictures were taken at 10mm... Thank you Mark, great video!
I love the water blur on the first photo. Just enough to let you 'feel' the waterfall without looking totally fake.
Thanks Wade!
Just ordered the Tamron 10-24mm lens. First attempt at wide angle lens. Your video was excellent and has given me some food for thought on practicing with the new lens once I receive it.
14-24mm f/2.8 mostly for astro, but, you gave me the confidence to tackle the field in daytime, thank you Mark
First lens was a pana 25mm F1.7 but I quickly jumped on eBay to get a Helios 44m-4, love that vintage glass.
Great show, Thanks!!!!!! The color range is unbelievable. I’d sure love to go out and take the same images with my Canon and see the contrast. I’m very impressed with your new camera!!!!!!
Thanks so much Terry! I am as well!
"getting low". it's really great advice.
Great Video! It makes me a better photographer. Trank you for this! Jan
Nice advice ! Thanks
Quite helpful advice. Well done. Thanks.
Very good information! Thank you very much.
I was so used to just shooting primes when I added a zoom I forgot about zooming in and out. I still do if I go awhile with just shooting the primes.
Interesting with my wide angle zooms I always find myself zooming in all the way, I'm a telephoto kinda guy
I really enjoyed this video, even though I’ve learnt some of these skills it’s a good reminder. So often I’m out shooting and you just forgot the basics sometimes. Thanks Mark
Thanks for checking it out Derek!
A great way to learn Mark, by watching your videos. Thanks for sharing.
I’m glad you think so Dave!
Thank you very much again for yet another informative and helpful video.
Glad to do it friend!
Thanks Mark, for the warnings on the wide angle lens. I have one but not used it yet so I will now do those intresting low and close to good use, next time I go out will have the wide angle Nikon 12-24mm in my bag. Great subject and good info.
Excellent, as always!
Many thanks!
Love the violet background
Great tips. I try to work each of them into my wide-angle images.
Thank you Roger!
Learning a lot from your videos and your teaching style !!! Thank you. I am also impressed with the production quality of your videos, including sound. I don't see a lapel mic, so I am curious how you are doing sound and how you light your studio. Please keep the content coming . Next stop will be 1 mil. subscribers!!!
Thank you for your tips on landscape photography. I am a newbie at photography but I do aspire to create some beautiful images as the ones in your video.
Thanks so much for the kind words Patricia!
Love the experience share!! Wide angler since Canon 1022 and Sony 1635 is great but the Voigtlander 10mm the widest. Like you stated wide is not for "getting it all in" but rather a subject close but getting interesting background. A mistake also is the distortion at the sides say indoors with windows and doors extended widely, better to do a indoor panorama so everything looks normal. Also for panoramas using the wide angle will give a bowl look near the camera so a longer lens setting and you will get more detail sharper of those far off things. Oh! keep it level with a horizon involved, even the camera can show level but it will show. And For those night Milky Ways stars will stream inwards at the upper corners due to lens trying to keep things straight up and down but the wide stretching of doors at the sides indoors happens with the night sky, curved lenses projecting on a flat sensor problem oh and stars are faster moving left and right if shooting eastward faster SS's.
Thanks for great, and informative video. I am curious as to the camera attachment that you were using to create these vertical shots? It looks handier than a ball head. Thank you!
Great tips sir 👍 I've learned a lot from this video 👏
Great learnings!
Great tips! I did a shoot at that same waterfall recently and getting up close and personal with a big rock to make a more interesting foreground gave me a more interesting result than just capturing the falls itself. (Although it’s one of the prettiest waterfalls I’ve ever seen!) I wouldn’t have known to do that if it weren’t for photographers like you sharing so many insights on CZcams!
Thanks Josh - really appreciate that man!
Yet again another awesome video Mark 👌🏻 I'm planning on getting out to one of our beautiful beaches here in Sydney Australia 🇦🇺this weekend and put to practise getting down lower and focus stacking. Fantastic tips once again mate, much appreciated 👍
Awesome to hear Shane - enjoy those beautiful beaches!
When I shoot wide, I like to use the zoom to get rid of elements that I definitely won't want in my final photo (thus what I keep fills the frame and is higher resolution), but unless I'm already as wide as the lens will go, I like to back off just a little bit to give myself some breathing room in case I'm forced to crop a bit, such as if the image isn't quite level, and leveling it cuts off the edges. If I'm not thrilled with what's at the extremes of the image, I have no issue cropping a little bit, and it was worth making the final image a bit smaller to have that buffer available if I needed it. If I have to crop a significant amount of the image, then I screwed up and should have zoomed in some more.
Thanks again Mark...... I am heading out this weekend for some Colorado Aspen fall pics and planned on using my Tamron 15-30 and now I know how to use it .... thanks!
Enjoy your trip Ken!
Wow, great sound !!!
Cristal clear. I'll keep that in mind once I'll use the 16mm I'm gonna get for Xmas. My actual lens is a 24-105mm F.4. Got a Lumix S1R. Cheers
Hi Mark, this is the kind of video that makes you pay attention to every photograph you take. Thanks a lot !
Let me ask you something, does photo stacking always requires a tripod ? Thanks.
Juan
Great video Mark! Your point about the ‘prime effect’ hit me like a truck. I had a look through my wide images and sure enough I shoot pegged at widest focal length and often crop (sometimes heavily) in post - oof.
Thanks Damien! It was a real eye opener for me as well!
Mark, very timely video. I found myself doing the same and took notes and will definitely be trying your hints and tips as I head out to shoot foliage this fall both in my local area in Western New York and on a trip through the Berkshire mountains of Western Massachusetts
Great to hear the video was helpful Thomas!
Thanks Mark. An informative and thought providing video, as usual. My first lens was a pentax 50 m lens followed by a Pentax 85 m (God - I loved that lens). On film of course.
Great tips using a wide angle lens which I will put into practice, thanks Mark.
Glad you think so!
HI Mark,
really enjoyed the video. Do you possibly have a tutorial explaining how you get this "satiny" - soft but still crisp look in your landscape photos?
Great advice and help
Thanks a million Paul!
Your pictures are amazing!! I'm new to photography. Do I need to use a tripod to take this type photos when using a wide angle lens?
I started very wide 14-24 and cropped a lot, then I progressed to a 24-70 and cropped, then to a 70-200 and cropped a little bit, now I use a 80-400mm and dont very often crop at all
I need this information, thank you.
Thanks a million Patricia!
17 40mm with the camera at a low angle to include foreground is something I have been doing for years..
I always tell my students this first up when they purchase their wide angle lenses.
Thank you for the video Mark.
Glad to do it and thank you for checking it out!
Great video! Learning a lot. Love the shirt.
Thanks so much!
Great tips, thanks for sharing!
Thanks John!
Really enjoying your videos Mark, and your teaching style. Very honest, to the point and easy to understand. I'd like to ask you how do you go about protecting the legs of your tripods when they are submerged in water (especially seawater!) If you are using RRS gear you obviously want them to last as long as possible and I know from experience that salt corrodes! Any advice would be appreciated.
The window in the background is doing a pretty good job of face recognition ;)
I will use some of this knowledge here in the Philippines.
Good info!
If you have only one wide angle lens and its a prime (like me - 24mm GM) you have a lot to walk to zoom in or out :. Great video thanks for sharing with us. Congrats to the winner.
Thank you Brano! Thats a good prime lens!
Mark, can you explain a little more on negative space as well as what you mean by a flat image?
Thank you.
I just got a Canon EF S 10-22 thanks for your information from your video
Love that pic at corona arch…miss that place
Oh my God, that last waterfall with the moss covered rocks....beautiful! I have been trying to focus stack, but get lost in photoshop! Afraid I'll mess up the original.
wiki.panotools.org/Enfuse might help. Forget photoshop. Develop your raws with rawtherapee to tiff or png (16 bit) then go from there. Beware! Enfuse is command line ;)
I literally slapped myself on the head when you said don’t forget to shoot vertical. I visited line rock in Utah and the photo I took of it was amazing but I always felt like it was missing something. Looking back at it I’m starting to think if I shot it in vertical it would’ve been *chefs kiss*
It's one of those, "Wow! I coulda had a V-8"! moments!!
Thanks Mark, good advice, just bought the Samyang 14mm for my Fuji. Thanks for sharing
Glad to do it and thanks for checking it out John!
WOW... Now that's what I call a lot of ideas and great knowledge to learn and work with, Mark... Thank you very much.. Never a dull moment.. I'm studying a Photography book written by Michael Freeman... Just part of my every day learning skills venture... Thanks Mark.. Stay safe.. Neville..
Thank you Thank you Thank you Neville!
Before I moved to fuji I loved using the Tokina 11-20mm lens, love it and definitely miss it still today. Fuji 10-24mm is definitely on the wish list!
The 10-24 is great!
Thank you very much and good luck
ABDR ! Glad to do it!