Why I Stopped Fighting the Mid-Range and Let the 24-120 Change My Kit

Why I Stopped Fighting the Mid-Range and Let the 24-120 Change My Kit

For most of my twenty years shooting landscapes, I lived at the extremes. Ultra-wide for the sweeping foreground-to-horizon compositions. Long telephoto for compression and isolation. The middle ground felt like no man’s land, a compromise zone for photographers who hadn’t made up their mind. I told myself that story for a long time, and it cost me shots. What changed my thinking wasn’t a single dramatic moment in the field. It was watching a working professional lay out exactly why he had quietly made a mid-range zoom his most-used lens over an entire year of serious travel photography.