Canon EOS 40 D | Sigma 24-70mm f/2.8 EX DG @ 70mm | 1/60 th sec | f/2.8 | ISO 400This may sound a little silly but bear with me. I'm sure I am not just speaking for myself when I say that it is all too easy for a landscape photographer to go to a beach for sunset, stick an ultra-wideangle lens on the camera and find a nice low viewpoint to create a striking composition. Now don't get me wrong, I love low down wideangle work but after a while it can seem like you are starting to repeat yourself.
Last night I returned to Bwlch Gwyn and upon arrival handed my Sigma 10-20 over to Angela who was accompanying me on my trip. I decided to turn my way of thinking completely on it's head and limit myself to just one focal length, a focal length that I would normally not even consider for landscape work; 70mm. I had seen plenty of stunning landscape images taken with telephoto lenses but it requires a very different thought process to compose these images, something I was not really familiar with. So by limiting myself to one focal length and forcing myself to look for new and creative ways of seeing and composing an image I have started to open up a whole world of new opportunities. This is something I plan to apply not just to seascapes but to pretty much all situations. I think I will start shooting at a focal length I am comfortable with in a given situation and then experiment by using all manner of different focal lengths to really work a location and explore all of it's possibilities.
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