How to pick the best lens for travel photography.

Here’s a few tips you can use to pick out the best lens for your travel photography.

Ready to learn how to take your photography to the next level? You’re in the right place. Keep reading to learn more about travel photography and how to choose the best lens to capture compelling images in this genre.

What is travel photography?

The cool thing about capturing travel photos is that your images can fall anywhere on the spectrum of photography. While this type of photography typically documents landscapes, cultures, customs, and history, it’s such a broad genre that it tends to overlap with other areas like street photography, or portraits, or landscape photography, or even photojournalism.

You might automatically think of publications like National Geographic as the prime example of this type of photography, but ultimately, if you’re trying to capture places and people in all of their glory, your art could be considered travel photography.

How to pick the best travel lens.

Picking the right lens for this genre of photography is all about understanding what sort of images you’d like to capture. Will you focus on landscape photography? Portrait photography? A mix of everything?

Consider factors like these during your search for the right lens:

• Focal length: for capturing landscapes versus portraits.
• Aperture and shutter speed: for live action or posed photos on your travels.
• Budget: does a pricey lens get in the way of your travel budget?
• Versatility and packability: can you pack down your lens and other gear efficiently for your preferred mode of travel?

Taking stock of these needs will help in your search for the ultimate travel lens.

Create stunning images in no time.

The right lens will help you elevate your travel shots — but the right amount of practice will always be the key difference between good photos and stunning images.

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