Landscape Photography Basic Tips

Before i bought a DSLR Camera I'm always stunned seeing a landscape images. The combination of sky, ground, sea and anything that captured by the camera is always dramatic for me. At the same time appreciating the beauty of the natures led me to take a photo of it. Here's a simple tip to capture the beauty of natures through landscape photography compiled from others technique and self realization.

1. Increase the Depth of Field

As you knew about the importance of depth of field, by controlling the aperture to the lowest it makes the subject more focus to draw attention to specific area of the frame and the result, the background will blurred because of shallow depth of field. Now, you are not taking a picture of a single object or a partial area to be focused. Landscape Photography is a whole scenery, increasing depth of field or closed Aperture makes the depth of field great causing the image clearer. Every detail of an image will be sharpened.

Remember: As you increase the depth of field meaning less light source. So it's either you
increase the ISO or lengthening your Shutter Speed or both.

2. Lines

In every landscape image you always notice the division of a scenery. It's either the sky to ocean, ocean to mountain, infrastructure to sky or anything that divides by the subject of an image. It gives the image scale, patterns and can be a point of interest. Using line are not only horizontally and vertically, it is any other way as long as the image makes a dramatic division.

3. Go carry your Tripod

As i said earlier, increasing the depth of field will affect your light source, image can be darker. So to balance the metering of an image you should control the other settings. One of my option is the long exposure from Shutter Speed. Example setting of shutter speed to 5 sec to capture a scenery using your two hands will not stabilize the camera, it will result to a blurry image. You need tripod to stabilize the camera. Level, angle and pattern made easy using this. And through long exposure from shutter speed it creates blurring motion of a cloud from the sky and water from the ocean.

4. Play with the Weather

Many of us think that the best way for landscape photography is a sunny day. But the weather might be playful, it changes sometimes unexpectedly. So ride on even its stormy, cloudy, windy, rainbow or dark skies. The best part of this is to create a moody image that represent a true dramatic situation. Don't wait for the sun to come again, just capture what is on the way.

5. Catch the Golden Hour

Everybody love this phenomenon. Pro, Beginner, Hobbyist, and even a person that totally not exposed in photography. The impact of the scene because the dramatic angle of the light makes the image come alive. Whether it's a dawn or dusk the first or last blast of the sun creates a stunning image, an extra ordinary product from the Golden Hour.

Now, get on your feet and carry those click. Explore the environment and find some interesting scene. Remember many of those shots are on the list, be observant and capture the beauty of nature with uniqueness.