Landscape photography tip: Don't include everything in the photo

Thursday 21 May 2020, 14:07 by Nando Harmsen | 5,364 views | 0 comments

This article was translated from Dutch with the help of AI. Read the original.

It's so tempting to photograph a beautiful landscape in its entirety. This applies not just to landscapes, but also to urban landscapes, and even objects or portraits.

It can also be difficult not to capture all that beauty in a single image. After all, you want to capture as much of what you see as possible. It's no coincidence that wide-angle or even ultra-wide-angle lenses are often used for landscape photography.

The danger of this kind of wide-angle and ultra-wide-angle photo, however, is that you include too much, resulting in a busy photo with too many subjects. What's more, everything appears very small in the image. You may recognise this; the photo doesn't show how impressive it was when you were standing there.

Take that wide-angle photo when you're in a beautiful landscape. Why not? It's beautiful, after all.

Then concentrate on the details in that beautiful landscape. Zoom in on interesting objects, change your viewpoint, and look at shapes and lines.

By photographing a detail of the 28-metre-high Cascade de la Beaume waterfall, it was possible to capture the lines of the falling water beautifully as a backdrop for the vegetation-covered rocks in the foreground.
142mm, ISO100, f/8, 1,6s
Show the landscape through several images instead of trying to capture everything in one single photo. There's a good chance your wide-angle photo won't be nearly as impressive as the detail photos.

104 more tips for fascinating photos

This is one of the landscape photography tips from the book The Photography Bible, which contains 105 tips to improve your photography. The book covers landscape photography as well as other forms of photography.

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