How-To

10 Tips For Visionary Landscapes

There's a random element in any landscape. Learning to bring some order to that chaos will enable you to make your best photos.

8 Experiment.

Digital photography has empowered photographers to take better images. Digital has helped overcome one of the basic problems experienced by novice photographers: understanding the difference between what our eyes see and what the sensor sees. With experimentation, photographers work out how to improve their images because they have nearly instantaneous access to their photos.

It’s equally important to experiment with tried-and-true methodology by perhaps working with a higher ISO setting to offer a faster range of shutter speeds that would potentially change the end result. This can obviously be done at no cost. There’s still nothing more satisfying than creating new images by breaking the rules. It’s quite refreshing and personally challenging to deliberately shoot images that make a mental leap, and in so doing, make images that seemingly come from nowhere.

9 Develop your own unique way of seeing.

Try to avoid the many clichés that surround us. The key is in developing a personal style. While we’re all inspired by the work of other photographers, that should act solely as a guide in developing our own unique thumbprint. It’s counterproductive to attempt to mimic the work of established photographers; photography, after all, is about self-expression and the recognition of one's own work. At the end of the day, it’s all an artist can ask for—to be recognized for his or her work.

10 Study the results of a shoot closely.

Identify those images that failed to fulfill your own visualization and understand why they failed. Then when you’re confronted with similar circumstances in the future, you’ll be less likely to make the same mistakes again.

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