7 tips for more efficient landscape photography

Saturday 5 February 2022, 16:32 by Elja Trum | 4,124 views | 0 comments

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Landscape photographer Mark Denney gives you 7 tips in this video on how to use your time more effectively during your photo shoot. This way, you come home with many more interesting photos. A day of photography will then give you many more successful photos.

1. Start without a tripod

One disadvantage of your tripod is that it makes working a little slower. So start at the location without a tripod. You can already find the best spots simply by holding the camera in your hand.

You can also take many photos perfectly well handheld. And once you have found the best spot, you could still get your tripod out to take a long exposure, for example.

2. Don't constantly take the same photo

It is not very useful to take the same photo dozens of times from the same viewpoint. Perhaps with only minimal differences in the settings. In the end, you will have many of the same photos afterwards and little to choose from.

3. Adjust your composition

Once you have decided on your composition, take a few photos and then move your camera. So try a variation on the composition. For example, by also taking a photo close to the ground, or one metre to the left or right.

So go further than just refining the composition with small adjustments. This way, you come home with much more variety and have more to choose from.

4. Changing conditions

Pay attention to changes in the conditions at your location. The sun coming out from behind a cloud, the sun setting and so on.

5. A photo within a photo

Have you found an interesting subject? There may be another photo within your subject. For example, by highlighting a detail or taking a photo from a different direction. Take several photos so you have more to choose from again.

6. Use a scene

Have you found an interesting subject and a beautiful situation? Take lots of different photos from different viewpoints.

7. Scout the location beforehand

Scout the location beforehand. If you can look around the location once in advance, you will already know where to find the best spots. If you cannot get there physically, use Google Earth and other tools to get to know the location in advance.

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