Whereas I largely use the wonderful Canon RF 100-500mm F4.5-7.1L IS USM super-telephoto zoom lens for nice pictures of distant wildlife and sports activities pictures, I additionally typically use this lens on a Canon EOS R5 Mark II for photographing landscapes and metropolis scenes.
Some inexperienced persons could also be forgiven for considering – qhy would you employ a super-telephoto lens if you need to shoot landscapes? Certainly you should use a wide-angle panorama lens for landscapes!
Guidelines are made to be damaged. Lengthy lenses are additionally nice for landscapes. As a result of a super-telephoto lens means that you can zoom in and concentrate on extra attention-grabbing scenes inside a scene. Extra importantly, longer the focal size, the extra you possibly can compress the attitude. This implies pulling parts throughout the scene nearer collectively. Which equals fuller scenes, like this shot of this distant church spire amongst the Fall tree foliage.
This has made this picture far more dense, filled with color, and extra attention-grabbing. I shot this picture at 270mm which has pulled the attitude collectively. If I’d shot the scene at one thing like 24mm and even 50mm, the church would seem rather a lot smaller in body and there can be plenty of undesirable gaps between all the great colourful timber.
The RF 100-500mm’s comparatively slim aperture vary additionally turns into a profit for panorama pictures – f/4.5 on the brief finish, and stopping right down to f/7.1 on the lengthy finish. I need to be taking pictures at round f/8 and narrower apertures for a greater depth of subject when utilizing a protracted lens right here.
For this picture, I shot at f/11, 1/160 sec and ISO160. The built-in Picture Stabilizer helps to verify I seize shake-free pictures handheld at lengthy focal lengths.
