Taking photos of Landscapes is such a cool activity that connects you to the nature and helps you forget negative thoughts. If your photography is good, then your viewers will benefit in the same ways. Here are a few thoughts on what landscape photography is, and how to develop your landscape photography skills.
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Communicating Depth in landscape Photography
Pictorial depth is a third dimension in a 2 dimensional image. Being able to communicate depth in a landscape photograph will increase the sense of space and using pictorial depth cues is a composition skill.
Aurora and foreground? Northern Lights Photography
The Northern lights in Iceland can yield wonderful displays for your camera, but if you can include some of the landscape you are standing in at the time, it will give your picture a dynamic edge.
My perspective
PHOTOGRAPHY IS ABOUT FORCING YOUR PERSPECTIVE ONTO OTHERS: I am going to explore this statement made by one of my guests, just to see if she is a big liar, or is there some truth to the statement. If so, does all communication attempt to do this? or maybe just art?
Telephoto: the needs for lines
When I play back through my shots I see how I am working on a frame getting slightly closer to the correct composition. It can be useful to study your work like this sometimes. What seems clear is that there can be different rules of composition depending on your focal length.
Considering DOF in a beach scenic
There are times when a sea-scape requires a Deep DOF (Depth of field), but here we look at situations where you can get more from your lens by considering apertures such as f/6.3 for your scene.
Intelligent focussing
With the ability to crop and adjust exposure in post-processing, focusing is one aspect which cannot be changed after the fact. In other words, as digital photography become easier and easier, the art of focusing is one of the few critical techniques remaining in the quest to make photos from single frames.
Feel the Landscape – Nature Photography
If you are a landscape photographer and you want to really convey the ‘feeling’ of the land, you should allow the landscape to possess you.
Turn your obstacles into features
On some rare occasions the elements which lead to a beautiful photograph are all there in fron tof you just waiting for you to press the shutter.
Landscape composition – the story of the 3 grounds
Considering a photo as a story can be useful if you are careful to show how the elements of a scene relate to each other. This post looks at how background, foreground and middle ground can make a landscape photograph.
Focusing Landscapes – Hyperfocal distance
Hyperfocal distance involves careful focusing adjustments to ensure that objects close to the camera and objects in the distance all have the same sharp focus.
Photography Blending Techniques – Focus Stacking
This articles looks at a lengthy and complicated procedure to render every part of a scene with perfect focus. the aim is to achieve a high depth of field (DOF) whilst maintaining the high quality of your lens’ sweet-spot.