Many experts will tell you that the best views for landscape photography are wide views, therefore we should use wide-angle lenses for landscape photography. There is truth to their view but we should not limit ourselves to only one look. Once we have our wide shot (see last week's post on the Victoria Falls), why not slap on a longer lens and try some more intimate landscape images. So here we go ...

This image is still of Victoria Falls in Zimbabwe but I zoomed right in and took a more intimate image. We still need to pay attention to good composition. There still needs to be something prominent for the eye to go back to. I have chosen a shutter speed that shows the water flowing (by using blur) yet still leaving some definition so that the water is not just a blur. Just take a few exposures using different shutter speeds so that you can pick the best one. I cannot tell you to use a shutter of .... (insert value) because there are too many variables at play to determine that for every situation. These variables are the speed at which the water is falling and the focal length of your lens. The longer the lens the more blur there is (because your field of view is closer).

We can even go a bit more abstract. Just don't be afraid of shooting landscapes with longer lenses. Get a variety of images from the same shoot. I have chosen a faster shutter speed here because I wanted to freeze the water a bit more. I needed to do so, so that it is not just a blur. In the previous image, the rocks provide sharp focus but here I don't really have that.

          Be creative. Get as many different images of a shoot as you can. Push yourself.