Comments on: 11 Tips for Landscape Photography

By: Oleg Siberianman

Oleg Siberianman — Tue, 03 May 2011 16:23:52 +0000

Steve thank you for a nice advices.
I’m a the beginning level, and still learn about proper exposure, but your advices make sense and giving a good direction.
Thank you!
and have a good photo hunting!

By: Pete Belardino

Pete Belardino — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 16:05:55 +0000

A lot of good info here Steve ! You finally got me to order “The Camera” from Amazon !!!

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By: Tiberman Sajiwan Ramyead

Tiberman Sajiwan Ramyead — Sun, 30 May 2010 21:31:52 +0000

I have the advantage of being a COMPLETE beginner DSLR – nothing to unlearn! The tips for me are not tips; they are lessons. But here and there things are slightly too fast for me.
I have just rediscovered the United States of America on the world map (from Mauritus here):- about being there early and start looking around etc. – beginner brothers: be there a hell of a lot earlier.

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By: Sarah

Sarah — Thu, 20 May 2010 15:39:42 +0000

Thanks for posting these great tips! I am new to landscape photography and need all the help I can get. I have been following Peter Lik’s work for inspiration, Check him out if you are not familiar: http://blog.peterlik.com/

By: Steve Berardi

Steve Berardi — Thu, 20 May 2010 03:36:10 +0000

@Wayne – Welcome to the group! Glad you’re enjoying the posts so far!

@Zack – Honestly, I haven’t done tests with and without the extra noise reduction, but based on how it works and what I know about focal plane arrays, it does make a lot of sense to me. I should definitely do some actual tests though to be sure You’re right that it basically doubles the time you have to wait (cause it takes two exposures of same length), so that’s annoying, but one shortcut is to get a perfect exposure at a high ISO and wide aperture first, and then just do the math to translate that shutter speed to your desired ISO/aperture.

@Frank – great suggestion about the bean bag!

By: Frank Townsley

Frank Townsley — Wed, 19 May 2010 14:21:36 +0000

Hi Steve, I have found that balancing the camera on a bean-bag really can help when a tripod is not available. The advantage is you can tilt the camera on it for targeting your subject matter.

By: Zack Jones

Zack Jones — Wed, 19 May 2010 13:32:44 +0000

Regarding #4 do you really find that helpful? Seems with the noise reduction capabilities of LightRoom and Photoshop that this step wouldn’t be necessary. I also think in some cases it may double the exposure time so a 4 second exposure becomes an 8 second one. The first 4 seconds are for capturing the image and then the next 4 are for noise reduction. For me I disable all in-camera noise reduction and just deal with it in post.

By: Wayne

Wayne — Wed, 19 May 2010 10:34:46 +0000

There are a couple of new (to me) tips here, thanks! I particularly like your explanation in #6. I often shoot several heights and angles, but never understood the underlying reason why some look better than other. I recently subscribed to your feed and I’m enjoying your posts because I tend to photograph places and things rather than people. Thanks!