7 tips for adding depth to your landscape photos

Wednesday 9 September 2020, 20:10 by Elja Trum | 4,937 views | 0 comments

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

When taking landscape photos, you often want to create depth in your image. In this video, landscape photographer Mads Peter Iversen shares 7 tips on how to do this.

If you prefer reading to watching, these are the seven tips he gives.

1. Use a wide-angle lens

With a wide-angle lens, everything close to your lens appears large in the frame. Everything further away quickly becomes very small. You create depth because your subject is very prominent in the frame, while the background recedes because everything becomes so small.

2. Put something in your foreground

Make sure you have two subjects in your frame. Something in the foreground and something a little further away. Including your foreground in the photo makes the depth clear.

3. Use leading elements

You can also create depth by using a line to lead the viewer into the photo. A path through a forest can work very well for this. Because you see the path going from large in the foreground to small in the background, you can also see the depth.

4. Use the difference in size

When you have the same subject in both the foreground and the background, such as heather in the example in the video, you can also see the depth from the difference in size. In the foreground, the heather appears large, while further away it becomes smaller and smaller.

5. Use layers in your landscape

You can also make depth visible by showing layers in the landscape. So include elements at different distances in your image. For example, two trees standing behind each other or, as a classic example, different hills behind each other.

6. Use mist to emphasise depth

Mist creates a nice distinction between the foreground and background. You can use mist as a layer, as in the previous tip.

7. Use a shallow depth of field

His final tip for making depth clear in a landscape photo is to shoot with a shallow depth of field. This effect becomes stronger when your camera is close to your subject and the distance to the background is large.

It also helps to use a wide aperture, such as f/4. The background then becomes blurred, which also makes a lot of depth visible in the photo.

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