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Landscape Photography Blueprint

The document provides guidelines for landscape photography, emphasizing the importance of aperture, ISO, and shutter speed settings to achieve optimal focus and exposure. It suggests using a narrow aperture (f/8 to f/14) for greater depth of field, keeping ISO under 400 to minimize noise, and employing a tripod for slower shutter speeds. Additionally, it highlights the significance of composition techniques and histogram analysis for creating impactful landscape images.

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Landscape Photography Blueprint

The document provides guidelines for landscape photography, emphasizing the importance of aperture, ISO, and shutter speed settings to achieve optimal focus and exposure. It suggests using a narrow aperture (f/8 to f/14) for greater depth of field, keeping ISO under 400 to minimize noise, and employing a tripod for slower shutter speeds. Additionally, it highlights the significance of composition techniques and histogram analysis for creating impactful landscape images.

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landscape APERTURE

photography f/2.8 f/4


Wide Aperture (more light)
f/5.6 f/8 f/11 f/14
Narrow Aperture (less light)
f/22

blueprint You need to use a higher f-stop, or narrow aperture, to get


more of your scene in focus. Generally, you’ll want to shoot in
the f/8 to f/14 range, topping out at around f/16.

iso
100 . .. 200 . .. 400 . . . 640 . . . 800 . . . 1600 . . . 3200

Lower LIGHT SENSITIVITY Higher

In order to compensate for the smaller aperture, you may


need to bump up the ISO a bit, but then you want to avoid
noise in your landscape shots and to do this you will need a
lower ISO. Keep it under 400 and preferably at 100.

shutter speed

1/1000”
1/100”

1/125”

1/250”

1/320”

1/500”
1/25”

1/30”

1/50”
10”
30”

15”

2”

1”
Tripod Freeze
Blur Motion Handheld Ok
Recommended Motion

3
Use a tripod if it’s too slow to hand hold and you are getting
blurry shots. You’ll definitely need a tripod if the shutter speed
is slower than 1/50s.

1 exposure
2 gear
selection essentials
the

3
Look at your histogram! You will
usually want to see a bell shaped It is possible to get a great landscape

composition
histogram that is slightly to the right without much gear, but it’s a lot more
of center. It’s crucial to understand difficult. The bare essentials for great
why you want this kind of histogram. landscapes are a wide angle lens and
a tripod.

The classic rules of composition


tend to produce very powerful
landscape images.

This makes post production easier


Many landscape photographers
as bringing a slightly over-exposed
will also add a polarizing filter,
image down doesn’t introduce noise
an ND filter and an ND grad filter
whereas increasing exposure in That means thinking about the
(individually or stacked).
post processing reduces the quality rule of thirds as well as looking for
of your image by making it more elements such as roads, rivers and
grainy. fences to act as leading lines.
TIP:
TIP: Wind is your enemy so do TIP:
whatever you can to stabilize
It also helps to capture as much your camera to avoid blur.
Be aware of the visual weight
information as possible by
of elements so that you get a
shooting raw files.
balanced composition.

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