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Forum: Photographic Technique 07-28-2019, 02:20 PM  
Landscape photography (getting started)
Posted By Take-5-JB
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cprobertson1,

That is a documentary "landscape" as you would not expect it to place in an exhibition, or sell as art. It would serve in an article or book to illustrate the geography/topography. You need to clone out the two aberrations in the upper third quadrant to clean up. Keep playing with things and develop your style.

JB
Forum: Photographic Technique 06-02-2019, 10:31 AM  
Landscape photography (getting started)
Posted By Take-5-JB
Replies: 75
Views: 8,400
cprobertson1,
A ton of great insight already. Here are a few things.

You will eventually develop your own style. Don't feel yours have to look like others. But they can't be gargoyles either. I use 18mm to 300mm for landscapes depending on what relationship I am after. Understand that longer focal lengths compress the relative depth and make flatter looking images. That stream and mountain are not a mile from each other, more like 5 miles.

Photographers Ephemeris. On bad weather days and after dark you can scout, think, plan for a spot to shoot.

All kinds of rules. Break a few.

Look at diagonals for leading edges to perceive depth or lead the eye.

Read about Depth of Field and Hyperfocus. A long time ago I heard a ditty that went .."f8 is great, and f5.6 & f11 maybe heaven, but f16 can be keen".

Under exposed can be recovered in PP, but blow outs from overexposure are usually lost.

Polarising filters and neutral density filters. Read up.

As has been said many times...LIGHT. Work the edges of the light to get shadows, angles, depth, etc. Use it to make a somewhat boring feature pop out and save the shot. Some shots are bland at any time.

Go back to your field in the morning or evening, work to get an angle on those trees, use a polarizing filter to pop the sky, maybe lay on your belly to get a different perspective, and remember to feel what you see, then shoot it.

Keep looking, shooting, evaluating, reading, and develop a style that is yours.

JB
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