Best 10 Landscape photography tips to get you started

We see before how to use composition and rule of thirds to capture a perfect photos, while In this photography lesson we are going over 10 landscape photography tips; because last week, I was doing landscape photography and from editing those lessons kind of got these 10 tips that I thought we can share with you to help you with your own landscape.

I am going to run through them, and have explained them a little bit more...

1. SHOOT AT GOLDEN HOUR:

Tips number one is to shoot right around sunrise or sunset, because it’s when you have the most dramatic light as opposed to toppi light, and there’s a lot of contrast during those times as well as the colors and the sun coming through the atmosphere.

Also, before and after the sun coming up or going down, you have this really beautiful soft light, so in a matter of an hour, you can go from contrast direct beautiful gold light to really soft nice lighting. So it is kind of the best time to be shooting and get a range of photos.

2. FIND A FOREGROUND SUBJECT:

Tip number two is to think about adding foreground elements to your photos and not just bid wide open landscapes; So it gives you perspective and depth of what you are actually looking at, also it gives you reference and the audience reference.

So that dynamic in any photo really helps you, where you have to think of your foreground, main subject, and your background, because it is all important to have when you doing landscape.

3. INCREASE YOUR DEPTH OF FIELD

This one can go either way, so for beginners I would say that the tip is if you are trying to get more in focus, so just increase your depth by closing down your aperture, but we also talk about playing around with shallow of field, but in general for landscapes what I got was increasing your depth of field.

4. STRAIGHTEN YOUR HORIZONS:

Maybe you want your horizon to be a little crooked but you need to make that decision while taking the photo and really trying to pay attention to your left and right sides of your horizon.

5. USE A TROPIC:

If you are doing a long exposure use a Camera tripod.

I think it is really impossible to do it without a tripod, you can set up on rocks and get creative with it, or use your backpack or something, but a tripod is ultimately the best.

it is nice to have a tripod in general because you know you can sort of set your frame and really spend the time looking through it and not holding it, sometimes you shoot with along heavy telephoto lens, or whatever it is and it’s kind of nice to have, but I think it depends on your circumstance.

So the tip would be to get more creative shots bring in the filters and a tripod and test it out .

6. CHECK BEFORE YOU GO:

See where ever you going there is a specific location you should be at or at that time of the year if there is a special thing happening.

7. BRING A POLARIZER FILTER:

If you want to make your skies pop, use a polarized filter.
Polarizer undoubtedly there’s a reason the pro photographers use them and really there’s tons of filters and filtration, that in today’s day and age you can just use digital, but there is something to be said about using glass and about doing it off your Digital SLR camera and having a great photo with any editing in post.

8. TRY WIDE AND TELEPHOTO LENSES:

Try out different photography lenses, don’t just go for the wide shot but also bring a telephoto.
So that comes down to what is in your kit, and we have a lot of question about what is the right lens, so I think that you can really make any lens work for any occasion, sometimes it just depends on your personal preference.

9. LOOK BEHIND YOU:

This tip is really important especially during sunrise or sunset.

If you taking photos it is not always just about what’s in front of you, but you really have to be searching constantly, getting low, getting high, spinning around 360, because you always going to find something that you kind of expected or anticipated or known was going to be there.

So if you shoot the sun, make sure you turn around and look at what’s happening behind you with the light.

10. SIMPLICITY STANDS OUT:

We are talking about using a lot of negative space, but also going through our photos afterwards some of the ones that I personally like the best were where we found a single object as a single tree, rock or something, and kind of had a more single photo rather than it being too busy.

it is a style too when you are out there and you see something and you feel connected by it or you see something simple, that will come across your photography, and that is a kind of an art.

Those was our 10 tips for landscape photography, and the biggest takeaway is being out there and taking photos and not being under pressure, so just enjoying it and getting to play with things, try different things, because it is the only way to learn.

in the next lesson, we will take a look into 5 Tips for better nature photos.

5 Tips for better nature photos