6 Tips to improve your landscape photo’s
My latest tips sheet …
Landscape photography is one of most popular areas of photography. Here Professional Photographer Sue Kennedy of www.blueeyesphoto.com gives 6 tips for improving your landscape photographs this winter.
- Look for simplicity - the graphic lines, shapes & forms in the landscape.
- Capture what first drew you to the subject. Even if you go off and shoot other compositions.
- Find your compositional hook - that leads your viewer into the photo - it suggests space, depth and places beyond the frame.
- Your lens is an extension of your eye & I personally prefer to work in camera in the moment to create my vision working with the limitation of the weather and all the untidy bits.
- Light is the language of photography - it sets the mood, affects the colour and tonal relationships & often tries a photographer’s patience. You are either waiting for the light or rushing to catch it, but use it to communicate your picture’s message.
- Some landscape images are gentle others dramatic. By selecting the subject and exploiting the light you can create an image that has the qualities of a painting or create a surreal image. At this time of the year, mist and snow can change scenes quite significantly, and make something quite ordinary special.
December 6th, 2005