in this video I'm going to tell you which are my three favorite lenses for
landscape photography or for any photography I know that some of you when
thinking of landscape photography will think about the Holy Trinity of lenses
but because of my minimalistic approach to photography gear if you stay tuned
you will find out that I'm not going to tell you to spend all that money or
carry all that weight
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going to talk about landscape photography lenses and I really like to
know which is your favorite go-to lens for your landscape photography so if you
have a chance why don't you let me know in the
comments below thank you so let's get started and of course the very first
lens will be a wide so let's get started and of course the very first lens for
landscape photography will be a wide-angle lens and regardless of which
camera system you are using there are multiple options as you might know I use
a Nikon full-frame DSLR the Nikon d810 and at first years ago I thought I
needed a a very very wide angle lens possibly a zoom lens so that I had
multiple focal length possibilities and I decided to invest quite some money
buying the 12 24 F 2.8 Nikon lens which is the first lens of the Holy Trinity
the lens was and possibly still is one of the best wide-angle lens in the
market super sharp beautiful images but if you are into long exposure
photography like me that lens has a very very big limitation it doesn't have a
filter thread so the solutions to put filters on that lens are very expensive
and also very bulky besides the fact that that lens decided to roll down
into the ocean in Martha's Vineyard while I was taking this photo with the
24 to 70 lens luckily I had an insurance and because my interest in long exposure
photography was growing I decided not to rebuy this lens but I actually bought a
16 to 35 f/4 which is a great lens costs half of the price
of the 12 to 24 it's much lighter and of course it does have a filter thread
nothing wrong with that lens until I found the one yes
in fact in 2014 Nikon decided after 30 years to update its 20 millimetres lens
and released the new Nikon 20 millimeters F 1.8 which I received as a present and
since day one I loved as a matter of fact the lens was always on my camera
like it is right now and it is less expensive than the 16 to 35 it is
lighter it is less bulky and is incredibly sharp it's really sharp
especially when you use aperture between f/8 and f/11 in that range the sharpness
is throughout the picture frame fantastic also because of the very wide
F 1.8 aperture you can use it easily for your night photography which sometimes I
do and there is something that I really love about a prime lens like the 20
millimeters it forces me to proactively search and work for my composition I
need to move around more I need to move closer I need to move backwards I
basically need to deliberately decide what to keep in the frame and what not
this is for sure my favorite wide-angle lens for landscape photography and here
it is a few images that I took with that lens
Lens number two this might be a surprise because most of you will think
oh it will be the 24 to 70 millimeters zoom lens I did have that lens great lens
maybe the best lens for travel photography so that you can just keep
one lens on and do everything with it but it is not my favorite second lens
for landscape photography is actually a nifty fifty a lens that everybody should
have in their bag no matter what kind of photography they do it's a super fun
prime lens super sharp super inexpensive really really light I love this lens and
the way I use this lens for my landscape photography is mainly panoramic photos
without going too much into details because possibly I should do a video
about how I take my panoramic photos basically I take a sequence of vertical
shots on my tripod overlapping by one-third and then I merge them in
Lightroom and because 50 millimeters is the focal length of the human eye and
there is almost no distortion I think this is the ideal lens for panoramic photos
there are more expensive options for the 50 millimeters with wider aperture but I
think that the F 1.8 is more than enough for landscape photography or street
photography the third and last lens that I will recommend you for landscape
photography is for sure a telephoto lens
of course the wide angle will give us these beautiful comprehensive vistas of
the scenery but the telephoto lens will give us the opportunity to get more
intimate to get more personal to be more creative and also to find more
compositions within the same scenery so I strongly recommend to have in your bag
a 70 to 200 millimeter lens nikon has I think six different 70 to 200 millimeter
lens ranging from $4,000 to $1,300 my 70 to 200 is actually the least
expensive of them it is also the lightest and I am very satisfied with
the quality of the images as a matter of fact this image the got me quite some
attention the last few months was taken with that lens and I also made a video
about it if you care to watch
in summary with these three lenses 2 prime lenses like the 20 millimeters and
the 50 millimeters and one zoom telephoto lens the 70 to 200 F 4
in my opinion you will be able to cover 95% of your landscape photography
without compromising on quality without breaking the bank and also containing
the size and the weight of your photography gear I hope you found this
information useful so thanks for watching and I will see you in the next
video