MPB Natural Landscapes

Hey, what's up guys, professional outdoor photographer David Johnson here for outdoor photography guide and today we're talking natural landscapes. Now when I'm talking natural landscapes, what comes to mind to you? It's probably the outdoor surroundings that you're familiar with or that you like to go and photograph, which is great because there are landscapes all around us, but how do you photograph them naturally? Doing this requires you to have the right kind of gear and also know how to use that gear correctly and in this video we're gonna be going through each one of those topics so let's start off with the gear that you need to know gear number one is having a wide angle lens now wide angle. Lenses are synonymous with landscape photography because they give you a very wide look.

Why is this important to landscape photography? Because when you're photographing landscapes, you're viewing the world in almost 180 degrees, including your peripheral vision. When you're using a wide angle lens, a lot of times it's spreading out the view that you can see in so that you can see wide from left to right but also from top to bottom. Now with a wide angle lens, what you need to understand is your comfort zone matters. You can use something like fixed lenses which could be just a 24 millimeter lens, or you could use something like I'm using here today.

This is a 8 to 25 wide angle lens now why. I like to have range with my wide angle lenses is because I like to have the most opportunity possible. If I have limited feet movement around me, I don't want to have to sneak up to the very edge of a cliff to be able to get the shot that I want. That's why I like a lens with a little bit of a range like this 8 to 25 millimeter ultra wide angle lens. Now I think a lot of times people get fixed in the option of just shooting horizontally like this, but the power of landscapes is.

unlocked when you also understand that switching your camera vertical like this allows you to encapsulate a lot of huge foreground elements in the bottom of your frame. A vertical shot will really pull your viewer into the frame using elements like leading lines or things that look like arrows that point you directly to where your subject is going to be in the photograph. This is important because the whole idea of composition is to guide your viewer through your photo. In a strategic order composition leaning lines and pointing your viewer to exactly where you want them to look is the whole reason we're doing it now when it comes to cameras, I really feel like any camera will do a great job with landscape photography, but you may want a camera that's a little bit smaller compact and lighter weight for hiking great distances along with coming with great weather ceiling on your camera to endure the rain, the heat, the cold. Everything that you could throw at your camera.

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Yes, a telephoto lens for your landscape photography because telephoto lenses gives you a very close up glimpse into the fine details of natural landscapes. Think about it this way what makes a landscape so beautiful? What's the small details that make up a great landscape. Now when you're photographing something like this, it's great to go ahead and take the wide angle shot. But then to zoom in a little bit closer with a telephoto lens and find all those intricate details that make a landscape so great this could be things like portraits of actual mountains that you're photographing this could be trees or interesting light patterns that are dancing, or this could even be mountains stacked back into the distance.

Now the interesting thing about wide angle lenses is you know how we talked about photographing. In a really wide frame of view, what a telephoto lens does is kind of the opposite. What a telephoto lens does is because they can zoom in to great distances they can actually compress distances and stack ridges together. This is why telephoto lenses are one of my favorite lenses to use with landscape photography because. You can stack a tree or an interesting object, even wildlife photography in front of a negative space or a solid color when you're photographing landscapes.

Now it's always important to get the photo right as best as possible in your camera. That's why I like to use cameras that have a lot of capabilities in them. And use a lot of extra things like filters, but the best part about a lot of new cameras is they have new technology built into them. I'm using an OM system OM1 Mark 2 right now. And it has a lot of filters that are actually built into the camera so I don't have to take as many things out into the field with me that I would actually need now all camera companies have great cameras that you can use for natural landscape photography.

There are a couple of things that you should use when you are photographing natural landscapes. Number one, I highly encourage you to get out of automatic mode if you're unsure about manual mode, photograph and. Aperture priority where you set your aperture and your camera kind of does the rest. Another thing I would encourage you to use if you're not comfortable with manual focus, use something like spot focusing and choose the exact spot that you want to focus to in your actual frame so that you're getting your focus on tack sharp because nothing is worse than thinking you got the photo but you actually got a fuzzy photo. Now getting cameras with the latest technology is great, but.

Can be kind of expensive. That's why I would encourage you to frequently trade in your cameras like an older model trade that in for the newest model that's coming out, and you can do that on sites like MPB.com if you wanted to stay up to date with the latest options for getting the great natural landscapes that you deserve to get as a photographer. Following these steps, both composition, camera lenses is gonna get you the best natural landscapes that you could imagine. And get those shots right in camera so that you don't have to do a ton of processing to them and you can be proud of the images that you get and you'll no longer have to say this photo doesn't do it justice people will look at it and say I wanna go there and do what you did.