What a 100-400mm Lens in Antarctica Taught Me About Shooting Landscapes Differently

What a 100-400mm Lens in Antarctica Taught Me About Shooting Landscapes Differently

Most landscape photographers treat a wide-angle lens like a security blanket. I get it. I spent years defaulting to the widest thing in my bag the second I hit a scenic overlook. Wide feels safe. Wide feels epic. But wide also flattens everything into a postcard that looks like every other postcard from the same spot. That’s the problem Nigel Danson’s recent Antarctica tutorial cracked open for me in a way I wasn’t expecting.