Landscape Photography Tips
The landscape photography tips listed below offer creative suggestions on posing and composition for beginners. To learn how to take better photos click on the picture to the left and find out about our online digital photography course.
Tip #1
Shoot from a different perspective and see what a difference it makes.
Create an image, the same way an artist would paint a picture. First, decide what you subject is. Choose an aperture that will selectively isolate the subject. Choose a frame or border that complements your subject.
The image pictured below is a tiger lily, photographed one hour before sunset. When you photograph a landscape or part of a landscape, you paint with light.
Use a fast shutter speed for a deep, dark blue sky. I shot this at 1/250 second.
Watch the horizon line to make sure it doesn't cut the image in half. This one came real close. Keep your camera steady so the horizon line is straight and not crooked.
Grab a cup of coffee and run out the door early in the morning for a shot like this. The mist on the river can usually only be captured in the minutes right after sunrise.
Include foreground in your image to paint a better photograph. This photograph benefited from the use of a graduated filter to keep the foreground from losing too much detail.
Some shots are meant to be vertical and some horizontal. Experiment with both ways to see which orientation you like the best.
The milky look of the waterfall is achieved by using a very slow shutter speed. Keep it at 1/8 or 1/15 second. Make sure you have a tripod handy for this look.
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