The majesty of a sweeping landscape can feel a little overwhelming, especially if you’ve been stuck indoors for a while. From open fields and rolling hills to massive skies, an ultra wide-angle lens will help to pull everything into the camera, giving an epic sense of scale and perspective.
The most obvious choice is a wide-angle zoom lens, and there are plenty of camera manufacturers’ own-brand optics to choose from. The Canon EF 16-35mm f/4L IS USM (£829/$999) and Nikon AF-S 16-35mm f/4G ED VR (£979/$997) are popular choices, to name but a couple. They’re reasonably priced and come complete with accessory attachment threads, enabling easy fitment of landscape-friendly filters like ND grads (graduated neutral-density).