If I was going strictly for landscape photography then I would probably use the ultrawide more. For these 2 trips I was going as a tourist. Since there is the opportunity for a lot of wildlife in yellowstone then a long lens would be useful, the longest you can carry. I recall in yellowstone I took even more with the long lens because a lot of the things I wanted to photograph I was not able to get close to. I took about 20% with the ultrawide and 80% with the medium zoom. I took 2 lenses to Utah last month- 18-35 ultrawide and 28-105 medium zoom. This is my style of shooting- to each his/her own. if an animal likes the grazing at a particular spot, it's likely that animal will return the next day.įorgot to mention in the other post that I use 24-105 (16- 70 equiv on a crop body) on a full frame 90% of the time with my shooting and wide angle and telephoto the remainder of the time. When you are there, check in with the Visitor Centers to ask where animals were seen feeding yesterday. You'll have time to examine your images after the trip, but no opportunity to go back and re-shoot if you don't like what you brought home. This technique will use up memory cards (which are cheap) and leave you with a lot of images to go through after your trip. Odds are that not all of those images will exhibit bad camera shake. I also suggest using your camera's maximum frame rate and shoot "machine gun"-style to get 4-5 images each time you shoot. Put the camera+long lens on that tripod for shooting - your odds of getting images without ruinous camera shake will improve significantly. So I strongly suggest the 100-400 range zoom, and GET A TRIPOD. Shooting 500 and 600 mm is a skill entirely different from shooting with your kit lens, and trying to get the hang of it on a special trip isn't a good idea. I can't recommend renting anything longer than 400 mm for someone with no practice and experience with long lenses. However, there's no such thing as a lens "long enough" for wildlife - we always want longer. If you haven't found that the lens you have now isn't wide enough, you probably won't have a problem with its wide end on your trip.
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