Landscape Photography371 articles

As landscape photographers, it’s our job to catch the emotional essence of a place and show it to others. We want to inspire people with the beauty of a world they might never even have known existed.

Learn to snap jaw-dropping wallpaper-quality photographs with our tried-and-true landscape photography tips:

Are You Over-Editing Your Landscape Images? 5 Items to Check

Are You Over-Editing Your Landscape Images? 5 Items to Check

It’s easy to get carried away when editing your landscape photos. A little tweak here, some adjustment there, and before you know it, you’ll have over-edited your photos. The signs that you’re over-editing landscape photos aren’t always easy to see. But it’s helpful to know what to look out for. In this Lightroom tutorial, landscape […]

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How to Use the Gradient Filter in Lightroom for Editing Landscape Photos

How to Use the Gradient Filter in Lightroom for Editing Landscape Photos

The gradient filter tool in Lightroom is pretty powerful. It works and behaves like the neutral density filters that we use in everyday photography. Using the Lightroom filters, however, requires a slightly different approach to what you might be used to. Joshua Cripps explains: First things first, the graduated filter can be easily accessed from the top right Develop […]

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Uncommon Landscape Photography Tips

Uncommon Landscape Photography Tips

Landscapes are beautiful as they are. Simply pointing your camera at them doesn’t make you a landscape photographer. Professional landscape photographers work with landscapes in a different way. Jason Charles Hill and Gunnar Freyr share some amazing, non-typical tips to step up your landscape photography to the next level: Include a Person By adding a person in […]

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Nailing Focus from Front to Back in Landscape Photography

Nailing Focus from Front to Back in Landscape Photography

Want to get your landscape photos looking as polished as the shots you’re seeing on Instagram? It’s not as easy as you might expect. Luckily, there are a few secrets to getting pin-sharp images that onlookers can’t turn away from: As Nigel Danson explains in the informative tutorial above, mastering focus is all about finding the […]

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Landscape Photography with a Telephoto Lens: 5 Reasons to Try

Landscape Photography with a Telephoto Lens: 5 Reasons to Try

When we think of landscape photography, the lens of choice is almost always on the wider side. Wider lenses allow you to include more of the scene in the shot. But photographer Jay P. Morgan has some other ideas. He proposes the idea of using a telephoto zoom lens for landscape photography and gives five reasons […]

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Making the Most of Light in Landscape Photography

Making the Most of Light in Landscape Photography

Photographers are obsessed with light. The type of lighting that is available determines the mood and look of their photographs. While studio photographers have the flexibility of modifying light according to their needs, landscape photographers don’t have that luxury. Landscape photographers tend to be patient with light and wait for the right light before taking […]

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Luminar Photo Editing Filters on Landscapes & Cityscapes

Luminar Photo Editing Filters on Landscapes & Cityscapes

Do you want to edit your images but aren’t sure where to start? Maybe you want to know how to add that little extra something to your photos? Today we’re going to look at simple, yet effective ways to add adjustments to your images in Luminar 3 (currently on sale for Valentine’s Day). We’ll be using […]

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Quick Landscape Photo Editing Tutorial in Lightroom

Quick Landscape Photo Editing Tutorial in Lightroom

Many beginner photographers feel overwhelmed by the idea of retouching their images. Using software like Adobe Lightroom or Photoshop doesn’t necessarily need to be overcomplicated. And you don’t need to spend hours retouching a single image to get the desired result either. Fine art photographer Attilio Ruffo takes you through a simple process of editing […]

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7 Important Learnings from a Landscape Photographer

7 Important Learnings from a Landscape Photographer

Lisbon-based photographer Andy Mumford has years of experience showing his work in galleries and teaching workshops. As a result, he’s spent countless hours contemplating landscape photography. Through his successes and failures, he’s narrowed down the essentials of the genre and has shared his findings with aspiring artists worldwide: Some of Mumford’s most important points boil down to […]

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Hyperfocal Distance: Where to Focus for Sharp Landscape Photos

Hyperfocal Distance: Where to Focus for Sharp Landscape Photos

Love taking photos of broad, sweeping landscapes but not sure where to focus to keep the entire landscape sharp? Landscape photographer Brenda Petrella tells us how to get the entire image acceptably sharp when there’s no particular subject in the scene: Have you ever tried shooting a landscape on f/11 or above thinking that, since […]

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