How to Do Armchair Location Scouting for Outdoor Photos
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- 31 Oct 2022
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Being an accomplished photographer means developing a range of complementary skills all of which combine in an agreeable process that, hopefully, results in good photographs.
And while the technical and the artistic skills are crucial to a positive photographic outcome, they’ll all be for nothing if you haven’t got anything interesting to point your camera at in the first place.
I put it to you that one of the most underrated, or at least under-appreciated skills in photography – is location scouting. The ability to seek out new locations, and to boldly go where no photographer has gone before, can be what pushes your landscape photography to the next level.
If you want to stand out from the crowd and take photographs that will catch the eye then you need to find and photograph new locations. Then you need to keep that location under your hat so that lazy bastards who won’t put in the leg work can’t ruin it for you.
The good news is that in this day and age we can put the power of technology and the Internet to use by location scouting from the comfort of the sofa.
Google Earth Pro
Cost and availability: Available for free from Google.
The venerable Google Earth has been around for many years now and, if I’m being honest, its interface reflects that. First released in 2005, it has gone through some changes over the years but remains a flexible way of scoping out interesting new geographic locations.
There is the familiar web version that can be used on anything with a browser, but to really put this powerful application’s tools to full use, you should download the desktop application. It’s available for Mac, Windows, and Linux and is completely free. Read More...
