One of the most fundamental challenges of landscape photography (and many other genres) is capturing a three-dimensional scene and transforming it into two in a way that still conveys the depth of the environment. Mastering this will greatly improve your landscape images. This great video tutorial will show you in detail how to control depth and perspective in landscape photos.
Coming to you from Shrimp Photo, this great video tutorial will show you how to use depth and perspective to improve your landscape photos. One of the most common mistakes new landscape photographers make is not considering depth. Since landscape work often uses a very wide focal length, which tends to push the background away and flatten it, if you don’t include a certain foreground element, the frame can look very flat, almost like wallpaper. Including even a small element in the foreground, such as a well-placed rock, can restore that sense of depth and give the viewer a nice place to enter the photo. and move through the image to the background. Check out the video above for the full recap.
And if you really want to dive into landscape photography, check out “World Photography 1: Landscape Photography and Post-Processing with Elia Locardi.”
