Favorite Tip: Capture Movement
When most people think about landscapes they think of calm, serene and passive environments – however landscapes are rarely completely still and to convey this movement in an image will add drama, mood and create a point of interest.
Examples – wind in trees, waves on a beach, water flowing over a waterfall, birds flying over head, moving clouds.
Capturing this movement generally means you need to look at a longer shutter speed (sometimes quite a few seconds). Of course this means more light hitting your sensor which will mean you need to either go for a small Aperture, use some sort of a filter or even shoot at the start or end of the day when there is less light.
Favorite Place: Seacoasts
Once you have thought about the character of the shore, look for elements you can use to reinforce the feeling you're after. Palm trees make a good frame for a tropical beach; a spray of water shooting over rocks adds drama to a rugged coastal scene.
Three Favorite Photos:
photo by Ales Komovec
photo by Antony Spencer
photo by Miles Morgan
Photographers:
Ales Komovec was born in Kranj, Slovenia in 1969. Other types of photos he takes are macro & nature, black & white, architecture, and sports.
Antony Spencer is from Dorset (UK). He only shoots landscapes, some panoramic, some not.
Miles Morgan is from Portland, Oregon. He is a landscape photographer, he has shot lava, coastlines, alpines, and the southwest.
What You Need For a Landscape Photo:
- filters for black & white
- neutral density (ND) filter
- filters for color
- spare batteries
- flashlight
- lenses
- tripod
- photoshop
- camera
Places:
1. You could go a lot of places in austin for photos like this, the 360 bridge is one place to get a good landscape photo.
2. places I could go:
- 360 bridge
- auditorium shores
- south congress
- lamar bridge
- capitol
- skyline
- zilker park
- zilker botanical gardens
- barton creek greenbelt
- mayfield park
