Tamron 17-35mm Lens Features

Everyone, I'm professional photographer Ian Plant and winter has finally arrived to my home here in the Midwest and to many other places around the world. I know that everyone gets really excited about the thought of winter photography but the truth is it can be very difficult. If you don't have a lot of fresh snow, then the winter landscape can often look bleak and uninspiring and it can be a real challenge to find good shots. So when that's the case, I stop thinking about doing grand sweeping winter landscapes and instead I start looking for winter intimates. I'm shooting with Tamron's 17 to 35 millimeter wide angle zoom lens made for full-frame cameras. It's very light and compact, making it the perfect walk-around lens. It allows me to explore the winter landscape freely without a lot of gear. When I'm shooting winter intimates, I like working with a wide angle zoom because that way I can zoom in a little bit tighter if I need to get close to a discrete element of the landscape, but I've got the flexibility to go very wide when the scene calls for it, for example, if I want to get creative with the diagonal lines that are formed by the shadows when the sun is shining through a winter forest. Winter landscapes on an overcast day tend to look fairly dull, so I prefer sunny days and I like working with the juxtaposition of shadow and light. So what I typically do is look for interesting patterns that are formed by the shadows on the winter landscape, especially at sunrise and sunset when the light that is coming through has a beautiful golden color. I'm also looking for ways that tell the story of the changing of the seasons, so maybe a fallen leaf in snow or something like that can be a perfect subject for a winter intimate photograph. When I'm working with a wide angle lens, I really like to shoot into the sun if possible and I stop down to a smaller aperture, like f/16, to render the sun with a starburst effect. This is going to immediately attract the viewer's attention and draw their focus to that part of the composition. So having a small, lightweight, portable walk-around wide angle zoom lens is perfect when you're exploring the winter landscape looking for intimate photographs. I'm Ian Plant and thanks for watching.