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5 Quick Tips to Improve Your Landscape Photography

Do you love nature? Have you ever felt amazed at the things that it offers? If you have, then surely you must have longed to bring your experience back home. To freeze the moments of joy close to nature in pictures and frame them. For this, you need not be an expert photographer. But you need to know a few basic tips of landscape photography. It’s the technique, which is used most in capturing the amazing beauty of nature.

Capturing the scenes of nature is probably the first thing almost every one of us have done when we first touched our old reel cameras. And although unknowingly, many of us clicked our first landscape photographs back then. But that was just a bit of amateur photography. To click the landscape photographs perfectly, you need to learn the basic steps to do it. Here’s a quick look at some of the important tips to click the best landscape photos.

Photo Credits: Marco Carmassi

5 quick tips for better landscape photography

Use Small Aperture Setting

Do you like to experiment with narrow depths of field? Well, that’s not something for landscape photography. Here, you should try to focus on as much scene as possible. And for that, just choose a small aperture setting. However, you will need to balance the brightness with higher ISO or longer shutter speed as less light enters the sensor through small aperture.

Use a Tripod

When you are using longer shutter speed, it is essential that the camera remains absolutely still during the exposure. Otherwise, the quality of the image is compromised. So, to ensure that you get the best images, use a tripod while shooting.

Compose an Attractive Foreground

What is the most important point of interest in your picture? Well, that’s something imperative in a picture. Try to ensure that this most attractive point in your picture is in the foreground. This will help to capture the attention of the viewer immediately.

Keep the Golden Hour in Mind

Golden hour – if you are planning to capture the best scenes of nature, this is a term you need to always keep an eye on. It’s the time when the light is optimum for the best landscape photography. So, make full use of it to get the best pictures.

Include the Horizon Perfectly

Well, that’s not an easy task. You will have to keep the horizon either on the image’s top-third or bottom-third line. But ensure that you click the image keeping the camera straight. It is possible for you to make it straight while editing. But, as a photographer, you should try to achieve it at one go.

So, these are what you can go for if you are planning to click the best landscape photography and bring home the wonderful scenes and colors of nature. Along with it, you can also try to add some motion to your photo to give them an enchanting touch as well.

This post was last modified on September 18, 2019 3:04 PM

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Tristan Taylor

Tristan Taylor, a proficient fashion photographer, is associated with various photography workshops, seminars and symposiums. He keeps himself updated with nitty-gritties of fashion photography industry. Tristan found Gulf Photo Plus extremely helpful to extract information regarding Fine art printing, Giclee print and other aspects related to photography.

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