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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Horoscope Fish" data-source="post: 474443" data-attributes="member: 13090">IMO, there are different types of landscapes: 1. Grand (or Grand Vista) - These are not quite panoramic but are really wide shots and these are, of necessity, taken with ultra/wide angle lenses. Bear in mind that that wide angle lenses cram more into the frame at the expense of making everything in the frame SMALLER; this makes your primary subject more prone to being lost in a sea of subordinate elements. I find these to be *the* most difficult type of shot to do really well, aesthetically speaking. 2. Contextual - These are not as wide as GV's but are wider than "Intimate Landscapes". Contextual Landscapes have a strong primary subject with a degree of... well... context: Subordinate elements or subject matter that supports and explains the primary subject in it's environment. Contextual Landscapes are stories: Here's this thing (the subject) and here is this thing's story (surrounding subject matter). 3. Intimate - These are landscapes with a strongly isolated central subject. Often closeup, but not always: an entire mountain could still be an "intimate" if it's tightly cropped for instance. Of those three types of landscapes only the first really requires a wide angle lens and yes, my definitions are clearly subjective and open to interpretation. Again, this all just my understanding so take it for what it's worth.I like primes for that reason as well, it gets you MOVING and in moving you change perspective. I shoot portraits with a 70-200mm. I consider myself a "generalist" photographer; I shoot almost everything with a 70-200mm, or a 50mm prime. My girlfriend shoots a D5300 and my (very expensive) Sigma 35mm f/1.4 Art series lens is all but welded to her camera. It's all she feels she needs and let me tell you, she does amaaaazing things with that lens.....</blockquote>

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