Telephoto Lens Tip: Adding Compression to Your Photos for Stunning Landscape Shots

Here’s a photo tip you can try if you have a telephoto lens and a scenic location like the Golden Gate Bridge. Oh, doesn’t that look nice, right, Donna? So nice. So nice. Oh, Sydney over there. What? don’t talk to me. No. Oh, okay. He can’t be on camera. But if you have a telephoto lens, what you can do is you can add compression to your photo. That means if you shoot at a longer focal length, you can bring all the elements in your photo together, the background, the foreground, and maybe we’ll put a subject in there. And if we put all that together, this is what that looks like.