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16-09-08, 10:55 PM
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Re: Best way to take Landscapes?

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Composition is also key. Again I'm no expert but I like to try and have something in the foreground like a rock, a puddle or some grass sticking up. Something that really helps give depth to a picture is having something (wall, hedge, field boundary, line of trees etc) leading 'into' the picture.
This is the most important element of the landscape, in fact almost any photo in as much as you need to have some primary interest in the image.

Just photographing a random group of trees will rarely produce a good image, irrespective of the sky/colour, unless there is something that the viewer can instantly connect with.

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18-09-08, 12:06 AM
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Re: Best way to take Landscapes?

I'll give my main tip,

i told my student (yeah i have an understudy now :P ) this and it keeps me going right,

DO NOT SHOOT AT EYE LEVEL!!!

that is my main rule, if you shoot it at eye level, it will look similar/exact same to lots of pictures you already see from there.

Get up high and you will have much more distance appear, or get low and have it close.

Don't believe me?? do this then, this is what got me my student i said "do this and if you feel it makes no difference, text me and cancel next week, otherwise See you at 7"

Take 3 photos of anything you really want (it will still work just some won't work very well) (same thing)
1 photo from Eye level,
1 photo from knee hight,
1 photo from higher than your head (stretch your arms or stand on a chair)

then look and you will see a complete difference.


Ok my other point,

ANCHORS!!

make sure to have a foreground anchor or else the scene won't push you in!

for example,



as can be seen in this, its shot from lower than eye level plus the rocks in the foreground give you an anchor and lead you into the photograph and towards the sunset.

whilst



This photo has no Anchor, it still is an ok photograph but a tree or a rock would have made it more impactual.

Hope that helps!

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18-09-08, 12:10 AM
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Re: Best way to take Landscapes?

That last shot of Skye was taken from the Bealach-na-ba road to Applecross wasn't it ???
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18-09-08, 12:36 AM
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Re: Best way to take Landscapes?

Correct Phil!

good observation!
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18-09-08, 12:38 AM
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Re: Best way to take Landscapes?

Nice tip Adam, copied it to the tips section (feel free to edit it if you think it needs further editing)
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18-09-08, 12:57 AM
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Re: Best way to take Landscapes?

will have a quick reskim over it and possibly add some extra photos to make my ramblings clearer.
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