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The Phoblographer’s 2014 Roundup of Landscape Photography Tutorials

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12/09/2014
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Now that 2014 is over and you’re bound to be getting your hands on some new gear, we’re rounding up tutorials and tips designed just for you landscape photographers. Over the past year, we’ve worked on tutorials, interviews, and more for landscape photographers. Whether you’re a beginner or an advanced photographer, we’ve got something in this roundup that is bound to inspire or teach you something.

Here is our roundup of Landscape Photography Tutorials.

 

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How to Get Sharper Focus When Shooting Landscapes: In this post, we share a video that teaches you how to focus on the scene in the exact right spot to get a perfectly sharp landscape photo. It isn’t just about focusing out to infinity.

Using an ND Filter When Shooting Seascapes: Using an ND filter can help you get that dreamy water image that you’ve always wanted. What an ND filter does is slows down your shutter speed. But the problem is with the amount of light coming in.

Five Things to Know When Shooting During the Golden Hour: Every photographer learns to love to shooting during the Golden Hour because of the sheer beauty of the sun as it lights the world. This tutorial covers this occurrence not only for landscapes, but also for portraits.

The Basics of HDR: We explain everything there is to know about an HDR. This method is mostly going away, but the knowledge is surely worth it.

How to Make Your Landscape Images Stand Out: As an editor who sees many submissions each day for landscape photography, I get a bit jaded seeing the same thing over and over again. Here is how you can make your landscape image a bit different.

For a start: shoot vertically.

Packing to Shoot Landscapes in Iceland: Former staffer Thomas Campbell talks to us about how he packed his camera bags to go photograph landscapes in Iceland.

Jay and Varina Patel Talk About Photographing Landscapes: Two of the most famous landscape photographers on social media talk to us about shooting landscapes and making money off of them.

 

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Chris Gampat is the Editor in Chief, Founder, and Publisher of the Phoblographer. He provides oversight to all of the daily tasks, including editorial, administrative, and advertising work. Chris's editorial work includes not only editing and scheduling articles but also writing them himself. He's the author of various product guides, educational pieces, product reviews, and interviews with photographers. He's fascinated by how photographers create, considering the fact that he's legally blind./ HIGHLIGHTS: Chris used to work in Men's lifestyle and tech. He's a veteran technology writer, editor, and reviewer with more than 15 years experience. He's also a Photographer that has had his share of bylines and viral projects like "Secret Order of the Slice." PAST BYLINES: Gear Patrol, PC Mag, Geek.com, Digital Photo Pro, Resource Magazine, Yahoo! News, Yahoo! Finance, IGN, PDN, and others. EXPERIENCE: Chris Gampat began working in tech and art journalism both in 2008. He started at PCMag, Magnum Photos, and Geek.com. He founded the Phoblographer in 2009 after working at places like PDN and Photography Bay. He left his day job as the Social Media Content Developer at B&H Photo in the early 2010s. Since then, he's evolved as a publisher using AI ethically, coming up with ethical ways to bring in affiliate income, and preaching the word of diversity in the photo industry. His background and work has spread to non-profits like American Photographic Arts where he's done work to get photographers various benefits. His skills are in SEO, app development, content planning, ethics management, photography, Wordpress, and other things. EDUCATION: Chris graduated Magna Cum Laude from Adelphi University with a degree in Communications in Journalism in 2009. Since then, he's learned and adapted to various things in the fields of social media, SEO, app development, e-commerce development, HTML, etc. FAVORITE SUBJECT TO PHOTOGRAPH: Chris enjoys creating conceptual work that makes people stare at his photos. But he doesn't get to do much of this because of the high demand of photography content. / BEST PHOTOGRAPHY TIP: Don't do it in post-production when you can do it in-camera.