1 Landscape Photography Tips from the Pros

While landscapes on their own are beautiful, showing accurate and dramatic scale, especially with human subjects, is an incredibly powerful tool you can use. 

This does require time to master, as it takes a careful eye to position people for a successful photo. You don’t want subjects getting lost in the shadows of a landscape. Instead, you want them framed and highlighted by a bright sky, feature of land, or ray of sunshine.

Once you master positioning of your subjects though, you can try different techniques, from shooting wide and capturing a vast landscape with your small human subject, to using your long lens to compress the landscape, and add a powerful perspective to your images, making the background landscape appear much closer, with rich, beautiful detail.