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    The Landscape Photography Handbook: Your Guide to Taking Better Landscape Photographs
    The Landscape Photography Handbook: Your Guide to Taking Better Landscape Photographs
    The Landscape Photography Handbook: Your Guide to Taking Better Landscape Photographs
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    The Landscape Photography Handbook: Your Guide to Taking Better Landscape Photographs

    By David Johnston

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    The Landscape Photography Handbook is an installment in the Photography Essentials Series. This guide to all things landscapes is designed to cover multiple topics that will help you shoot better landscape photographs. The Landscape Photography Handbook will take you through the topics of composition, how to shoot various types of landscape photographs, different tools to use for your landscape photography, landscape photography gear, how to plan a shoot, and much more. Implementing the lessons covered in The Landscape Photography Handbook will help you take more detailed, and better composed landscape photographs that will improve your photography portfolio.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDavid Johnston
    Release dateOct 3, 2014
    ISBN9781310330384
    The Landscape Photography Handbook: Your Guide to Taking Better Landscape Photographs

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      The Landscape Photography Handbook - David Johnston

      Photography Essential Series:

      The Landscape Photography Handbook

      By David Johnston

      Copyright 2014 David Johnston

      Distributed by Smashwords

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      Chapter 1: Composition

      A quick thought: Before we get into the technology of landscape photography, it’s important to first understand how to compose a photograph. Composition lays out important guidelines one should consider before pressing the shutter to freeze a moment in time. While some photographers might call composition a series of strict rules to follow, I prefer to call them guidelines. Sometimes the most important composition tool is your own creativity, and that doesn’t always fall into one of the so called rules. So, if you have a creative vision, it’s alright to ditch the rulebook and shoot the way you want. However, using composition guidelines will definitely help you construct more interesting photographs, and even lead to more creative ideas for future photos.

      Ansel Adams, the master of landscape photography, had a lot to say about photography, mainly landscape composition. He was quoted saying, A good photograph is knowing where to stand, There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept, and You don't take a photograph, you make it.

      So, how do we, as landscape photography junkies, know where to stand, develop a sharp concept, and make a photograph? The answer is developing a full understanding of landscape photography composition.

      Composition is the placement or arrangement of objects to create a work of art. It's of the utmost importance to compose a photo before you start snapping the shutter. It doesn't matter if you place a photo of an ocean sunset next to a properly composed photo of your backyard. The properly composed photo will win every time.

      So, let's explore some landscape photography composition guidelines.

      Not the Rule of Thirds

      The second I said composition I bet half of you immediately thought I would talk about the rule of thirds.

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