Landscape Photography

Landscape photography sounds pretty simple. Just snap a few photos of the countryside and you've got landscape photography. But is that all there is to landscape photography? seems like a lot of people do landscape photography, but there are only a few that have achieved greatness. so what is the difference between their landscape photography and everyone else's landscape photography? What makes their landscape photography so moving? Why is their landscape photography more evocative than everyone else's landscape photography? How do the capture the essence of a place so well in the landscape photography? Can we learn how to do better landscape photography by looking at their landscape photography?

The answers to these questions are subtle and easily overlooked. The one thing that set great landscape photography apart form other landscape photography is composition. Oh sure, everyone hears about composition in photography and all forms of visual arts. And everyone would say, yes, consideration to composition is imperative for good landscape photography. But do they really understand what composition means and how to apply it to landscape photography? composition isn't just what is n your photograph, but how the content of your photograph is situated in the frame. Of course, when doing landscape photography, you can't rearrange the landscape to improve your composition. So what do you do?

Well, you rearrange yourself that's what. When doing landscape photography, you don't want to make just another boring postcard shot of the landscape. No. You want to compose your frame so that your landscape photography is more artistic and more pleasant and/or dramatic. In landscape photography, you wan to keep it simple, but beautiful or disturbing, whatever your goal or purpose may be. You don't need to show everything that is in the area. Leave that for tourist maps and postcards. If you want your landscape photography to stand apart from the rest, compose your frame like a work of art. don't just frame up the landscape so everything is in middle. Take a different perspective, one that shows the beauty and evokes the spirit of the place. Maybe shoot your andscape photography low, just over the tops of the tall grass that is blowing in the wind.

Position that historic barn in the upper right middle of the frame. If you create a dynamic frame, you will have artistic landscape photography, not just plain old ordinary landscape photography. It can also help in landscape photography to create a sense of perspective by having a person in the foreground of your landscape photography. The person doesn't have to be the focal point, but they are there t help show the relative size of things in your landscape photography. And don't forget the creative use of light when taking your landscape photographs. Lighting can take the ordinary to extraordinary in a flash.

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