Photography Tutorials – Tips for Better Landscape Photography
Check out this great video about landscape photography:
This video describes how research can improve your landscape photography tenfoldjust by doing some simple research. Enjoy and please comment.
March 3rd, 2010 at 3:36 am
Good work.
March 3rd, 2010 at 3:56 am
at 3:33 it looks like a pigs face
March 3rd, 2010 at 4:48 am
WA ftw
March 3rd, 2010 at 5:43 am
Hmm…try having the wife hold a golf umbrella:) Good video camera, what model?
March 3rd, 2010 at 5:53 am
Hi Woodisa,
Its in Margaret River, Western Australia. Its known for its surf and fine wines.
Thanks for the comment.
Jamie
March 3rd, 2010 at 6:32 am
Where is that?
March 3rd, 2010 at 6:41 am
Jamie,
Tongue was firmly in cheek Mate, I totally agree with you, you don’t want to know what I have had to stand in/lie in/climb to get “the shot” and mostly failing. keep up the good work I am a fan.
Jon
March 3rd, 2010 at 7:18 am
Hi Jon,
Fair call. I have to admit I was pretty sure it was going to rain but I decided to take my chances any way. Unfortunately it didn’t pay off for me. But as you know if I didn’t try I would never have known.
Jamie
March 3rd, 2010 at 8:03 am
Nice location Mate, but the message seemed to be “do your research” maybe you should have researched the weather forecast ?
March 3rd, 2010 at 8:05 am
Sounds like heaps of fun! You’ve got some great photos on Flickr. Keep up the good work.
Jamie
March 3rd, 2010 at 8:32 am
I don’t have much noise issues, but I took my camera on a 100 km walk on the beach and went back and forth between lenses without taking precautions, so I have quite some dust on the sensor. I misplaced my rocket blower..
Not visible at low f’s, but prominent at higher ones.
March 3rd, 2010 at 9:31 am
Hi Morten, dust is always present no matter what your exposure. Perhaps you’re referring to noise? A great program to get rid of noise is Noise Ninja if you are using Photoshop. Also noise is a sign of underexposure so maybe you need to exposure your photo for another second or so. Best of luck and check out the blog
March 3rd, 2010 at 9:39 am
Then I better clean my equipment again, I get dust at those stops..
My minimum ISO is at 100, but I’ll definitely give the high f/stops a try. Obviously that lowers the shutter speed. Thanks again!
March 3rd, 2010 at 10:28 am
I would nearly always try to shoot at F16 on my prime lens and F22 on my 16-35mm lens. You are right though as the light fades I will drop down to around F11 which I still find is really sharp. I normally shot at ISO50 as well to try and leave the shutter for as long as possible.
March 3rd, 2010 at 11:07 am
Thanks a bunch! I’m in to stitching as well, often gives very impressive results and perspectives.
F16 is probably higher than the optimum for my camera (in terms of sharpness) – Would you still go that high to adjust the light?
Found you on flickr and added you..
March 3rd, 2010 at 11:14 am
Hi Morten. In this location I probably wouldn’t have gone wide. I most likely would’ve used my 50mm F/1.2 lens and stiched about four or five shots together. If I did go wide it would be as a ‘backup’ in case the stitching didn’t work. I would’ve probably shot it at a focal length of 18 – 20mm. Because this location lent itself more to a panoramic format if I shot wide I would probably then have cropped it to a 4:1 formate. I would’ve probably used F16. Hope this helps!!!
Jamie
March 3rd, 2010 at 11:51 am
Even if you didn’t get the shot, this was pretty amazing. Very nice location! How wide would you go on a composition as the ones you pointed out in the vid? And would you go for a f-stop in the range of 8-11, or?
I checked out your website as well, you wouldn’t happen to be on flickr?
Well done, mate!
March 3rd, 2010 at 11:51 am
It was my pleasure. If I can help in any other way please let me know. Good luck with the landscapes, they are tricky but heaps of fun and very rewarding.
Jamie Paterson
March 3rd, 2010 at 12:18 pm
Ok thank you for your advice!
March 3rd, 2010 at 12:51 pm
Hi Sorry for taking so long to reply. I appreciate that you took to the time out to comment. What other sort of info should I post on here?
March 3rd, 2010 at 1:45 pm
No you don’t need a formal education for it but you need lots of self education. Read books and websites and practice lots and lots!!!! You don’t need good equipment to start doing landscapes.
March 3rd, 2010 at 1:56 pm
So in other words you dont need to have a education for it. Well i love taking landscape photos. They just fasicnate me because they are just a piece of beauty! I dont even have any good equipment at the moment, but i want to get serious about it.
March 3rd, 2010 at 2:49 pm
Lots and lots of practice! Do you do any other photography? Find a mentor as well that helps a lot. Also on my website I quite often post tips as well.
March 3rd, 2010 at 3:04 pm
what kind of education do you need?
March 3rd, 2010 at 3:38 pm
It takes a lot of hard work but its definitiely possible. You have to try and do something different to everyone else.