I was looking through some old photos and realised how far I have come in the last few years. So I tried to understand why and came up with these 7 photography tips that help me improve my landscape photos. I really think they made a big difference and helped me take great shots. From understanding your camera better to light and composition.
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Current landscape camera – Nikon D810 –
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Best for Landscapes – Nikon 16-35mm f/4 –
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thanks dude for the learning about fotografi
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Great video. No hype, just good advice. I have subscribed.
I was really impressed when I cracked down and invested in my 10-18mm lens. I originally felt that it was extra money and very little differences between that and the 17-40 that I had originally. The amount of detail I get when shooting real estate with the extra wide lens really drilled into my head the importance of using the correct lenses for the job.
thanks for this amazing tips! Im just a beginner from switzerland, but I hope I can improve my photography with this new knowledge. Cant wait for more!
Over the past 10 years, I've gotten slower. But a good thing for it. I take my time a bit now, and I pay more attention to the details of each image. It's so tempting when shooting digitally to just snap of tons and tons of shots, but I go for quality over quantity now.
Oh, and I do much less black and white. I still do them, and I love them. But as part of my 'training' that I gave myself, I took the element of colour out of the equation to just focus in on the composition of an image. Nowadays, I have much more vibrant photos, but still retain the composition of my earlier work.
My tip: don' t press the shutter if you don't know all important settings. At least shutter speed, aperture, ISO and focus. If you take a photo without to know you play lottery 😉
But yor points are great too!
3. Point make not fully sense. I focus always of the 1. point of interesst when this point lays behind the hfd but never more then twice the distance of hfd. If you focus on infinity you have everything in front of only in acceptable focus. If my rule can't work I going to make focus stacking with two or more pics. Regards Jog.
My advice to my former photographer self is along the lines of Nigel's 'simplifying' tip. I realised that a nice view doesn't necessarily make a good photo. Now I always ask myself 'what is this a photo of?' and concentrate on framing that.
Isn’t turning the exposure compensation wheel on Ap exactly the same as turning the shutter speed wheel on M with a fixed aperture. Or is there a difference?
For me not always being so wide & utilize nd & polarizing filters
If you pose with a guitar you could fool people you were Richard Thompson! Besides that, thanks for the video!
What made the biggest difference to me was when i decided to stop making pictures to impress others and stop trying to follow every photography “rules and guidelines” and just took pictures that i liked and pleased ME!!. I photograph for fun and t go out and relax.
Awsome video love it.
My light bulb moment (which I'm missing in your 7 tips): every photo needs a subject (or story) and a title (and something more interesting than just "nice scenery", or "nice landscape"). If you can't say what the subject and title are, don't take the picture. Light (and sometimes guiding lines) should guide the viewer's eye to towards the subject and make it rest there. Boring pictures often have too many subjects or no subject at all. I also look for bright elements (other than the subject) that could potentially distract from the subject.
Photography seems to be a neverending learning process. Thanks for all the great videos
Duuuuude your just wrong about exposing for the shadows and bringing down the highlights, the other way around is muck better, a bitta nous is better than no details at all!
My photography top tip is start with looking. Before you look through the camera, look with your eye around, and try to imagine how you want to translate your vision to your photograph
Simpirication, it came from Instagram, those primitive “art” photos with single object and simple backgrounds, looks great for desktop wallpaper but brings zero information.
Look at classic paintings, they have huge amounts of tiny details, can be viewed for hours and still interesting. But for modern meilenials its “too complicated” too many items looks bad for them, lets make primitive pictures to enjoy dumb public. Yes of course..
Dude I had to do like a triple take
Mannnnnnn I thought you were Chris Martin 🤦🏽♂️🤦🏽♂️
A quality lens on a 10 year old camera will usually always trump a cheap lens on a brand new camera.
Hi Nigel, I just come across this video as I am in the process of trying to improve my photography. I agree with a lot of points, I shoot on manual because I think I'm supposed to! Half the time I will forget to adjust the shutter speed to compensate for a different aperture I have chosen. By watching your videos I have learnt to look for good compositions instead of just snapping away and using a tripod has helped my thought process and just slow things down. I will apply your tips and keep on trying to improve …
Nigel, thanks for the great information, it always helps us newbies.
Great tips. I would say another things I've noticed.
* Best photos are never (or rarely) taken in the ideal or common weather conditions. They are somewhat boring. Sometimes they are taken just after the storm or rain shower, on top of clouds or above clouds in November, in the winter with fog and strong icing. This means hiking and even camping in very uncertain and unpredictable weather. Or perhaps just taking camera everywhere with you and knowing nice places around the city. Worst kind of weather is warm sunny day with strong haze.
* Sadly common weather can be extended to seasons. I like spring when trees have just a small leaves and this may last for a few days in April and middle of October when trees are yellow and hopefully sky is not completely dull.
* Quite surprisingly I would say that my best photos are from places around the city, inside the city and from places I somehow like and that are not too far. Maybe it's just about amount, maybe it's about having some favorite places, freedom and no time restrictions, i don't really know.
* I would say that hi-end camera is not that important. I upgraded from Panasonic GF1 with 20mm/f1.7 lens to G80 with several lenses over the time. But GF1 was easily portable and unobtrusive and I carried it and took photos just for fun. Some of them were quite good. G80 is better in multiple ways, but not carrying it means missing several moments.
Using continuous shooting for people (and animal) photography. Getting the right expression is close to impossible, if you only take 2-3 pictures.
Bought a higher end camera, significantly improved images overall
thank you, that was eye opening and true insights that would take years to come across on my own. You just made me a better photographer, sir. cheers
thanks for the tips
This is most stupid video i ever click…..dude wtf
The problem with exposing to the right, is it assumes that's a well lit daylight shot. If you're trying to capture the essence of a darker scene, exposing to the right is not a good look. Your dark scene then looks more like a daylight scene, which will look unnatural. The shadows may be what caught your eye about the scene, and now you've basically destroyed them. Of course, pure black isn't a natural look either, because even in the real world, dark things aren't actually black. That's why you raise black levels so blacks are more like a dark gray. It removes some contrast, making the scene easier on the eyes. So a histogram is only useful if you take into account what you're shooting.
Great tips. Good video and a nice pinch of humour, too. Thanks.
Thanks a mill for the great advice!!! I'm out with my dog a lot. I have to use the light with him , I'd never get the miles in if I didnt. Golden hour , thats what helped me a lot.
Thank you Nigel for sharing your knowledge and experience. Great tip the one about shooting on the right side of the histogram. I've always feared burning the highlights so I opted for underexposed photos and then I didn't understand why when processing I couldn't get a good and sharp result. Thanks again! Regards.
I LOVED point number five! The best by far!! Forget the other four!!!
Wtf is this? There was no penis in this video. Flagged as misleading.
My top tips are the same as your top tips. 🙂
I am still in the "complicated photos" phase :'(