We provide you with all the answers to your landscape photography questions: • Where’s the best place to position the horizon in a landscape? • How do you know what to include in the viewfinder and what to leave out? • How can you use shapes and lines to draw viewers in to an image and hold their attention for longer?
It all comes down to composition and there are a few basic techniques you can use to dramatically improve your images.
All of us, when we start out in photography, and usually while we’re trying to get a grip on the knobs and buttons on our camera, are faced with the difficult and troubling question of how we fit things into the picture space. Well, I will let you in on a secret – you are going to be working with this one for the rest of your photographic career! It takes time, patience and practice to get a grip on composition and make it your own. However, there are a few simple things you can do to make the most of your photographic opportunities and to reduce the number of times that your viewers’ eyes glaze over when they look at your photographs.
Here then, are 10 simple techniques to help you compose stronger, more interesting landscapes...