Outdoor Photography How To

One of the biggest challenges for landscape photographers is exposing a scene in a manner that accurately captures all the tones from deep shadows to highlights. A modern camera with a broad density range helps, but even then editing is often required.

There are a number of reasons that landscape and other outdoor photos may be underexposed. Perhaps you neglected to add the necessary EV compensation, or an overly bright sky biased the exposure.

One of the most daunting challenges faced by landscape shooters is optimizing sharpness in scenes with important objects in the foreground, midrange, and background of the frame. That's because even if you stop your lens all the way down to f/22 there's insufficient depth of field to maintain sharpness from here to there.

At this moment there are 32,527,830 #travelphotography posts on Instagram. With so many travel images posted online, and available for free, our business concern is that clients may find a great deal of those photos “good enough” to use. All of which makes it harder and harder to get a paying job as a travel or landscape photographer these days.

We've all captured bland landscape photos with unimpressive cool tones, and that's usually because the light just wasn't right. While it's often impossible to return on a better day, today's Lightroom tutorial explains a simple Lightroom technique for giving these images an eye-popping Golden Hour look.

Infrared photography is a popular method of transforming ordinary scenes into images with a unique, otherworldly look. Some photographers pursue this technique by paying to have one of their camera converted to infrared, while others purchase an IR lens filter to mimic the effect.

The usual goal when editing our images is to emphasize the capabilities of today’s modern cameras by adjusting colors, contrast and other key variables to achieve a clean, vibrant, natural look. The Photoshop tutorial below switches things up by explaining how to give images a nostalgic appearance with beautiful vintage colors.