How I take my 'Landscape photos'!

• First of all: I try to think which region or which area in my nearer neighbourhood would be a pretty nice place for a landscape photo. Also, e.g. when your in a airplane, do not just take a photo out of the window and think you have taken a great landscape shot. Wait for the right moment, when you are flying over snow covered mountains or a nice lake-plateau. Mostly a landscape photo is also connected to a panorama photo (a photo composed out of more than one photo)

• Equipment: Digitalcamera, tripod, in my case I do not have to bring any lenses, well there are none really specific accesoires you need, just bring what you think helps you the most (any filters, special lenses, etc.)

• Steps: It is a cold rainy day and you really think it is not the weather for taking photos. You are wrong! Even though when the weather does not look good, go outside and try your luck. Rainy days are perfec for B&W landscpae photos. Figure out which place, region or area is the most applicable object for taking as subject for your landscpae photo. Always take care that also something eye catchy is in the photo.
  
  
  
  • The tripod must be used for a landscape photo. It is not possible to hold your hand for more than two photos all the time still and at the same spot. It would be impossible later to cut the photos together for a panorama.
  
  
  • Light is not a very big factor of your photo. With using the tripod it is also possible to use long time exposures and so there will be only a small loss of sharpness or the photo gets a little bit blury. But i think this will never affect the result alot.
  
  
  • Exposure times should be calculated to the actual light conditions. In my opinion too long exposures are not very good because the bluriness is increasing too much. Of course taking a landscape shot of a range with cloudy sky in the night is senseless and should not be tried.
  
  
  • Try not to use zoom, because this is affecting alot the overview over the landscape and if you shoot this type of photo usually you want to show the distance, deepness and largness of a country, area, region or anything else.
  
  
  • With including other objects as people, animals or also cars other objects can become more catchy for the viewers eyes. E.G a person in front of a rock face is showing how impressive big those rocks are.
  
  
  • Use the natural lines of the landscape.
  
  
  • Try to start at the left or right end of your already imagined landscape photo and take as many photos as possible to be able to cut them perfectly together.
  
  
  • The End: Use Photoshop, Corel Draw or which editing program you will have to bring those photos together. A nice frame is also useful!
  
  
  
  

 

• Mostly my panorama, landscape shots are cutted together out of more than ten photos!! ( I know some of you will say, Panorama is not landscape photography. But mostly Landscape photography consists of a panorama, even though if it is not mentioned.)

I hope this description of me taking my landscape photos helped you a little bit. Have a nice start in the week!!

 

• Acessories: Digitalcamera, tripod, (lighthelp-aluminium foil, big white paper), if I want to take object photos as mobiles, clothes i need a good lightened room or area




• Steps : First of all I start with trying to figure out what would be an intresting object and topic of my new photo. Thats mostly the hardest part for me, because I got so much in my mind but never really know how to realise my ideas. When I'm done figuering out what kind of Photo (Macro) I'm going to take i search for a good spot.









This place should be a good lightened place. A lot of indirect light is helping to get an good detailed photo with nice contrasts and color saturtations. If I'm not able to find something like this I take my aluminium foil or big white paper and place it so that the light is nicely reflected on the object i want to take a photo of. Mostly it will be possible to get all these circumstances pretty well done.




The tripod is an absolute must. It is not possible to get a better sharpness than with using a tripod. It also allows to shoot the object from different angles but with the same kind of objectivity. (Higher, lower angle...also called eye level shot, eagle eye)





Exposure time should be calculated and used in realtion how it was possible to get light sources positioned and how much light is available. In my opinion, I don't like it too much if the photos appear very bright. So I mostly take a short exposure time and a fast shutter time.




Never forget to arange the object so that it will be eye catchy for the viewer and not boring to look at. Leave your creativity a lot of space.If your camera also offers an special 'Macro' mode, try to use it!







• Using Zoom : I'm not using alot of zoom for taking my macros, because it is mostly getting swooshy. I think only with a D-slr camera it would be possible to use the zoom effectively. I always put the lense pretty near to the object and get so a nice detailed shot. Of course, anytime it is too near but i think up to 5cm every camera is capable of having a nice sharpness. This is really depending on the photographer and the type of camera he/she is using.



• Do not only take one shot and think that this must be the perfect one. I think I easily got more than 100 photos taken at a try-out. And never think it will not work out, because at the end it will




I hope this description of me taking my macros helped you a little bit. Have a nice start in the week!!




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