Seascape Photography

How to Shoot Portraits of the Sea With a 100-400mm Lens (What I Learned From William Patino)
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How to Shoot Portraits of the Sea With a 100-400mm Lens (What I Learned From William Patino)

Most photographers point a wide angle at the ocean and call it a day. I get it. The drama is right there, the horizon is gorgeous, and wide lenses are forgiving. But I kept looking at my seascape shots and feeling like something was missing. They looked like postcards, not photographs. It wasn’t until I watched William Patino work a coastal break with a 100-400mm that something clicked for me. Watch the full tutorial on YouTube before or after reading this, because seeing the actual wave action he’s working with puts the technique in context.

Why a Telephoto Lens Might Be the Smartest Landscape Lens You're Not Using
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Why a Telephoto Lens Might Be the Smartest Landscape Lens You're Not Using

I’ll be honest: for a long time I wrote off telephoto lenses for landscape work. My mental model was wide-angle or bust. Get close to the rocks, show the sweeping sky, fill the frame with drama. It wasn’t until I started stress-testing budget telephoto options for a comparison piece that I realized I’d been leaving a whole category of images on the table. Then I came across this William Patino tutorial, shot on the east coast of Australia at sunrise, and it reframed how I think about coastal photography entirely.