landscape photography blueprint APERTURE iso shutter speed f/2.8 f/4 f/5.6 f/8 f/11 f/14 f/22 Wide Aperture (more light) Narrow Aperture (less light) 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. Lower Higher LIGHT SENSITIVITY 640 800 3200 1600 . . . . . . . . . . . . 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. 400 100 . . . 30” 15” 10” 2” 1” 1/25” 1/30” 1/50” 1/100” 1/1000” 1/125” 1/250” 1/320” 1/500” 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. Blur Motion Tripod Recommended Handheld Ok Freeze Motion the 3 essentials 1 2 3 exposure gear selection composition Look at your histogram! You will usually want to see a bell shaped histogram that is slightly to the right of center. It’s crucial to understand why you want this kind of histogram. This makes post production easier as bringing a slightly over-exposed image down doesn’t introduce noise whereas increasing exposure in post processing reduces the quality of your image by making it more grainy. It is possible to get a great landscape without much gear, but it’s a lot more difficult. The bare essentials for great landscapes are a wide angle lens and a tripod. Many landscape photographers will also add a polarizing filter, an ND filter and an ND grad filter (individually or stacked). The classic rules of composition tend to produce very powerful landscape images. That means thinking about the rule of thirds as well as looking for elements such as roads, rivers and fences to act as leading lines. Be aware of the visual weight of elements so that you get a balanced composition. Wind is your enemy so do whatever you can to stabilize your camera to avoid blur. It also helps to capture as much information as possible by shooting raw files. TIP: TIP: TIP: 200 . . .

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landscape photography

blueprint

APERTURE

iso

shutter speed

f/2.8 f/4 f/5.6 f/8 f/11 f/14 f/22

Wide Aperture (more light) Narrow Aperture (less light)

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.

Lower HigherLIGHT SENSITIVITY

640 800 32001600. . . . . . . . . . . .

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.

400100 . . .

30”

15”

10”

2” 1” 1/25

”

1/30

”

1/50

”

1/10

0”

1/10

00”

1/12

5”

1/25

0”

1/32

0”

1/50

0”

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

Blur Motion TripodRecommended Handheld Ok Freeze

Motion

the3essentials1 23

exposure gearselection

compositionLook at your histogram! You will usually want to see a bell shaped histogram that is slightly to the right of center. It’s crucial to understand why you want this kind of histogram.

This makes post production easier as bringing a slightly over-exposed image down doesn’t introduce noise whereas increasing exposure in post processing reduces the quality of your image by making it more grainy.

It is possible to get a great landscape without much gear, but it’s a lot more difficult. The bare essentials for great landscapes are a wide angle lens anda tripod.

Many landscape photographers will also add a polarizing filter, an ND filter and an ND grad filter (individually or stacked).

The classic rules of composition tend to produce very powerful landscape images.

That means thinking about the rule of thirds as well as looking for elements such as roads, rivers and fences to act as leading lines.

Be aware of the visual weight of elements so that you get a balanced composition.

Wind is your enemy so dowhatever you can to stabilizeyour camera to avoid blur.It also helps to capture as much

information as possible by shooting raw files.

TIP: TIP:

TIP:

200 . . .