Photography 101: Landscape Photography Tips for Beginners

Hello Readers, welcome to our 1st chapter of landscape photography tips for beginners. In this lesson we’ll discuss on landscape photography definition, idea, time & place selection, appropriate camera settings & finally some tips for beginners. Hope you enjoy.

What is Landscape Photography?

Landscape photography basically deals with natural sceneries. The captured scenes of outdoors, lifestyles, etc. those can express a great source of your observation on your surrounding is landscape photos. So, according to me, the landscape photography definition is The wide range of photos of free nature which has a deep meaning & long-term purpose.

Landscape Photography Ideas

As a photographer, you must be able to make the right ideas of landscape photography. Maybe you are thinking what actually I am telling about the term ‘ideas’. The ‘term’ ideas include what is your object & how this object will be taken by your gadget. You can take o photo of a green paddy field or a wide white desert or maybe your object is a blue ocean with white billows. Just keep remember a photo is not a photo, it’s a story. So whatever you take make sure your photo defines an idea and a deep meaning.

Perfect Location of Landscape Photography

Perfect Location Selection

As in landscape photography you’ve to deal with nature, so the perfect location should include more natural objects with some handsome artistic meaning. For me, I always choose a place far from urban crowds & the presence of people. To make your photo more meaningful populate yourself into the nature as much as you can.

Appropriate Time for Snaps

To get the right color of sky, most of the times you need to set your sail at the time of sunrise or sunset. But since, it is tough to at present maximum photographer choose the time before sunset. Besides, the direct sunlight of noon is also good for some kinds of photography. But in that case you need to have a good knowledge of ISO as it deals with the light sensitivity.

Appropriate Camera Settings

Many Beginners use auto focus for landscape. In fact, in the latest dslr cameras let us shoot with auto modes. But as a skill seeker you must use the manual modes and depending on the surroundings you should set the following setting by yourself:

  • ​Aperture: For landscape my suggestion will be open for aperture and take aperture as much as you can.
  • Shutter Speed: It depends on how fast your object is. If they you want to take some running horses into a forest you must set a good shutter speed. Again if you want to take a normal beach you can set it lower.
  • ISO: For a dim light area use the maximum ISO, for a sunny area minimize it and in normal light use from common ISO numbers (200,400).
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4 Kickass Landscape Photography Tips for Beginners

Avoid Empty Sky

Landscape Photography Dimension

Take Proper dimension

Most of the time to compose a good depth of field photographers divide their photo by foreground and background. In foreground they keep the object and then make a blurred or other background as the want. But I’ll suggest you to divide your ambiance into 3 parts: foreground, mid-ground and background.

I know the world mid-ground seems unusual to you. But as a viewer when we see a picture all we try to make a real three dimensional view into our mind. And if you only take two dimension the photo will look beautiful, but if you popular your photo by three dimensions it’ll talk to your viewer & make your viewer completely mesmerized.

Avoid Hand Shakes

At my beginning stage, my main problem was my hands. I didn’t know why I always shook my hands while taking photo. Then I went to an expert & he said not to breathe from before 5 seconds to after 5 seconds of every snap. Shaking hand also very problematic in sp​​orts or night-time photo shoot. So try to avoid shaking hands if you have it.

Then I came back & stop breathing for 15 seconds during the snaps. The change was notable & from then to now I follow this rule of stop breathing during any type of photography. I suggest you to do the same & see by yourself how the shakes stop.

Finally, I’ll say keep practicing because the practical experience can teach you more than any theoretical tips. So keep practicing & take more & more mind-blowing photos of nature.

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