Those who love wandering in the mountains have all the reasons to try mountain photography, but wishing to take amazing photos and having an astonishing subject in front of you doesn’t guarantee a good result. Mountain photography is challenging. Leaving aside the logistics, camera skills, and weather unpredictability, mountains provide a cobweb of lines, a multitude of shapes, analogous colors, …
Five Tips for Winter Landscape Photography
Winter doesn’t provide as many colors as other seasons, but it nevertheless provides spectacular landscapes. And once you’ve learned how to protect your gear from cold, nothing can stop you from taking great photos, right? Winter landscape photography is challenging not because of the cold or lack of color. It’s challenging because the light is different, the snow makes it …
Five Tips for Spring Landscape Photography
Landscape photography benefits from interesting subject matter all year round. And although the geography doesn’t change, each season has its particularities. Including season-related elements means adding a temporal dimension to your visual story. It becomes deeper and more meaningful. The viewer perceives emotions and associates the image with their own experiences. Instead of producing just an aesthetically pleasing image, you …
High-Key Landscape Photography
Landscape photography is a very popular genre. One has to come up with new ideas and fresh perspectives to be acknowledged and successful. There are several approaches you can follow: travel the world to find unique subject matters; use storytelling to exhibit more than beautiful landscapes (e.g. climate change, environmental issues, etc.); transform landscapes into fine art by creating a …
The Effects of Cold Weather on Camera Gear
Camera gear is designed to function at moderate temperatures. However, no photographer will wait for the perfect weather conditions to get outside and take pictures. Furthermore, some subject matters are available only in extreme weather conditions (e.g., glaciers, polar bears). Others change their aspect and provide fresh perspectives, colors, and moods. Although taking great pictures comes first, the safety of …
4 Tips for Editing Winter Landscape Photographs
Winter landscapes reveal one of the unseen faces of the world: the shapes of the hills and mountains, the lines of leafless trees and rivers, the fractal-like geometry of snowflakes, and the gritty texture of the ground. They are full of stories, moods, and feelings. At the same time, it’s straightforward to go too far and lose the connection with …
How to Photograph Rainbows
Unless you live in Hawaii or other places where rainbows appear frequently, you probably are thrilled when you see a rainbow or get a chance to photograph rainbows. Everyone stops for a moment to admire the beauty of nature and… take a picture. Unfortunately, rainbows are hard to get not only in nature but also on camera. Because you’re in …
The Effects of Light Direction for Landscape Photography
The quality of your landscape photos depends on the quality of available sunlight. However, it’s not always possible to choose a day with better weather conditions or a different time of the day to take photos. Sometimes you just have to work with the given sunlight and make the best of it. Knowing the light direction of your landscape at …
5 Reasons to Choose Nature Photography
Nature photography connects the photographers with the environment and allows them to present the world as it is. Many focus on the unseen or overlooked parts of the world, such as tiny insects or remote locations. Others focus on the damage people make to their planet. However, all nature photographers reveal the beauty of nature, its remarkable strengths, and the …
The Effects of Light Color for Landscape Photography
It may be hard to believe but sunlight has color and you have to consider it as an active element of your compositions. During the day, the sunlight goes from shades of icy blue and violet before sunrise to shades of pink, orange, and gold after the sunset and then slowly goes to white by midday. In the afternoon, sunlight …
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