Landscape Photography367 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:

Rescuing an Average Landscape Image with the Tone Curve

Rescuing an Average Landscape Image with the Tone Curve

When heading out to take some landscape shots, good results aren’t always guaranteed. Some days are better than others, like when you end up with beautiful looking images as planned. For those days that are against you, editing can be a last resort to transform an average looking image to something that’s print worthy. Photographer […]

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Landscape Photography: Steps to Improve

Landscape Photography: Steps to Improve

How many times have you been driving and wanted to stop and take a shot of that breathtaking landscape. You then stop, look around and the shot even looks better. Your heart even skips a beat. You go for it and return to the car with a huge smile. When you get back home you […]

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Long Exposure Landscape Photography with Minimalism

Long Exposure Landscape Photography with Minimalism

Photographs with a minimalistic approach tend to stand out from the rest. That’s because a successful photograph with a minimalistic approach often provokes a deeper meaning while having a composition that appears pretty simple. And even if you aren’t so great at capturing such though provoking photographs, you can give it a shot using a […]

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Landscape Photographer Shares Advice for Mountain Camping

Landscape Photographer Shares Advice for Mountain Camping

What better way to get up and close to nature and take some gorgeous landscape shots than by camping out? And the great thing about camping out is that you not only get to take some incredible photos, but you’ll also get to go out on a great adventure. Besides photography purposes, this can be […]

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Tips for Using Diagonals in Landscape Composition

Tips for Using Diagonals in Landscape Composition

Ask any photographer and they can tell you how important composition is. Further, they’ll also be able to share with you a ton of techniques to improve composition. However, not all such composition techniques are fool proof. And some of them tend to complicate the scene. In fact, there are only a handful of such […]

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How Clouds Can Affect Your Landscape Photography

How Clouds Can Affect Your Landscape Photography

Landscape photography is not only about having the best looking landscapes in your frame. It is also greatly influenced by the sky conditions, or let’s say the cloud conditions. Clouds not only affect lighting, but they also have a great impact on the mood of the photograph. So, whenever you’re composing your photos, it is […]

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Lightroom Masking Tutorial on Landscapes

Lightroom Masking Tutorial on Landscapes

Software is smarter than ever before. For photographers, this has greatly simplified the editing workflow and made complex tasks easier. A great example is when Adobe introduced range masks some years back. This allowed photographers to quickly create masks based on a certain color or brightness, thereby saving time. This time around, with a recent […]

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When to Ignore the Histogram and Choose Your Own Exposure

When to Ignore the Histogram and Choose Your Own Exposure

Exposure in photography can be subjective. When deciding whether the exposure on a particular image is overexposed, underexposed or just right, the definitions can be vague. So what’s the best way to decide your exposure settings? Your camera comes with tools that can help you, but how seriously you adhere to those is up to […]

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Exposure Blending: 7 Critical Mistakes to Avoid

Exposure Blending: 7 Critical Mistakes to Avoid

This article comes from Steve Arnold, creator of the Luminosity Masking Panel (currently 50% off) which promises to make sure you never fall foul of these exposure blending issues, and guarantees you a natural and realistic looking end result every single time. When blending bracketed exposures in my landscapes, I like everything to look as […]

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How to Use Focus Stacking for Tack Sharp Photographs

How to Use Focus Stacking for Tack Sharp Photographs

Due to limitations of our lenses, getting tack sharp exposures in which the foreground and background are both in perfect focus can sometimes be difficult. Fortunately, the clever folks behind Adobe Photoshop have implemented a very helpful tool into the popular image editing software. Using Photoshop’s stacking tool allows you to stack multiple images into […]

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