What new landscape photographers should focus on
When you’re new to landscape photography, there’s a lot to learn: camera settings, forecasting and planning around conditions, reading light, and more. One skill surpasses all others and this great video tutorial helps explain why it should be at the top of your list when you’re learning the genre.
Coming to you from Henry TurnerThis excellent video tutorial discusses the importance of practicing composition skills as early as possible in your landscape photography pursuits. One of the most difficult challenges of landscape photography is that you cannot control the placement of elements in the scene, which makes composition a particularly nuanced and complex skill. However, while understanding things like post-processing and camera settings and the like is important, the artistic treatment of composition and lighting is what creates a snappy and transformative photo. it becomes a way of seeing the world that non-photographers would never have imagined. The sooner you can master it, the better. Check out the video above for a full rundown from Turner.
And if you really want to dive into landscape photography, check out “World photography 1: Landscape photography and post-processing with Elia Locardi. ”