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Photo Tip Thursday: Better Landscape Photography

Hello again! While most of you reading these photo tips are primarily interested in bettering your outfit photography, I thought I’d switch it up a bit this week and discuss another use for your fancy D-SLR camera. For this week’s Photo Tip Thursday, we’ll be discussing how to better your landscape photography. Maybe you’re on vacation, or maybe you’re merely taking outfit photos and you spot a beautiful bit of scenery or a breathtaking sunset that you want to capture so that you can share it on your blog. Well this post is for you.

Landscape photography is quite a bit different than portrait photography. While in portrait photography, you want to isolate your subject/outfit by blurring out the background behind them, landscape photography is usually characterized by trying to get as much of the scene in the image in focus as you possibly can. Here’s a few tips to help get you started:

1. Use small apertures to maximize depth of field. By using smaller apertures, you’re able to get more of the scene in focus and sharp. This is the most crucial aspect of landscape photography. I regularly use apertures as small as f/22.

By using a very small aperture, I was able to make sure that the mountain in the background, as well as the trees in the foreground were in focus.

2. Decrease shutter speed before raising your ISO. In general, most things things in landscape photos are stationary objects, so decrease your shutter speed in order to achieve the proper exposure before raising ISO as to avoid noise. If you find yourself having to decrease the shutter speed more than 1/125th of a second, make sure you have something to lean against to stabilize your camera, or if you have a place to set your camera {or a tripod}, use that along with a timed exposure to get the photo. If you don’t have any means of stabilization nearby, then raise the ISO so that you can use a decently fast shutter speed to avoid camera shake while hand holding the camera

3. Find a visual point of interest and focus on it. Select a focus point that’s on or near what you want the the main focal point of your image to be and focus on it. Also, try not to always place the main subject of the photo in the middle of the frame every time. Try putting it off to one side of the frame or the other sometimes to add visual interest.

Lake Reflection
Here I focused on the reflection in the lake.

That’s it! Pretty easy right?

 

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