Tips for landscape photography
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- 17 Aug 2022
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Where do you start when it comes to landscape photography? Isn’t it a pastime plagued by 4am starts, lonely hikes and 20-second windows in the weather? Wrong! Well, partially right, anyway. If you’ve never taken a landscape photo in your life, don’t worry. We can help you get started. Likewise, if you’re a seasoned hand at landscapes, we can also help you too. Below are our best landscape photography tips that should make your venture into scenics that bit easier.
Landscape photography tips for beginners
01 You don’t need a wide-angle lens
You can shoot landscape photos with any lens, whether it’s a wide-angle, a standard or a telephoto.
Although an ultra-wide lens can help you squeeze more into the picture, it can make composition challenging and there’s a risk that everything will look too small in the frame. The trick with an ultra-wide angle lens is to get close to detail in the foreground, although there is a risk that this detail will start to look distorted if you’re too close.
Standard lenses give a distortion-free image, although you’ll need to work harder to make more exciting picture. Why not try shooting a panorama? Although specialist tripod heads can make this easier, software solutions such as Photoshop’s Photomerge feature can produce fantastic panoramas from pictures taken using everyday photo equipment.
They key is to make sure you provide enough of an overlap when you shoot each frame. Position the camera vertically too, as this will give you a much larger panoramic photograph and more freedom to crop the image if necessary.
Telephoto lenses enable you to pick out details in the landscape. The compression effect offered by these types of lenses is also a useful trick for adding drama to scenic photos. Making the foreground, middle ground and background appear closer together than they are in reality is a technique that landscape photographers use to make hills, mountains and forests appear to stretch almost endlessly into the distance. Read More...
