1. Shoot about 30 minutes before and after sunset.
This time also called a Golden Hour. A sunset is a great thing to catch, but even if you do not shoot the sunset, shooting at an angle of 90 degrees to the sunset or even shooting with the sun on your back, with the subtle light, the colors in landscape photos. Most outdoor photography magazines will not even consider shots that were not shot by this time, as well as for forward / sunrise.
2. Shoot about 30 minutes before and after sunrise
As before and after sunset, shooting caused to be seen much more detail and tone before and after sunrise. The lighting appears is exposed often happens when shooting in the middle of the day with bright light. relax for portraits, in the shadow for subtle lighting conditions, even in the middle of the day, but with landscapes, you can not the whole landscape in the shade. You have to leave about the weather for themselves. You can also shoot a little longer after sunrise, when a light clouds, but usually one or two hours after sunrise, and it is very clear.
3. Have a foreground, middleground, and background.
This is part of the rule of thirds, I mentioned in the next tip. Make sure shot three elements in the landscape, so the more aesthetic. For example, when gulls on the beach along the coast, in the foreground, while the middle ground would be a part of the waves and the sea, the sea and the horizon, the background.
4. Use the rule of thirds.
The Rule of thirds applies to landscape photography. Imagine drawing a tic-tac-toe design, with two lines, two vertically and horizontally. The plane is divided into three equal parts. Try the subject of these lines in one, for example on the left or top right or bottom left or right.
5. Use a small aperture.
To include as much as the scenery possible, use a long depth of field. Using a more closed aperture makes the depth of field longer (and the f-stop setting a higher number). This allows for more things to be in focus. While blurring out the background is sometimes preferred, with landscape photos, we often want to have many elements in focus.
6. Don’t put the horizon in the middle of the shot.
This tip is closely related to the rule of thirds tip: don’t put subjects (the subject being the horizon in this example) in the middle of the shot. While many beginning photographers may be inclined to divide the photo in half, having the horizon the top third, or even top fifth or top eighth, is much better, as is having the horizon in the bottom third, fifth, or eighth. This allows us to focus on either the sky or the ocean or earth so we have some kind of focus.
7. If the sun is harsh, shoot away from it to get blue skies.
Shooting close to where the sun is causes the areas to be blown out.
8. Finally, keep the horizon level.
This one may seem obvious, and although there are times when the horizon may need to not be level to accommodate a better composition of a subject, keeping the horizon level when possible is good practice.[via]
photo courtesy elisa
