Wherever you are on your landscape photography trip, there are common myths about contacting the craft that can catch you back – ideas that are usually expressed in online communities that increase doubt and block your progress. Let’s look at three common myths that can catch you back.
Working to improve your landscape photography can be challenging many times, in which different types of different types of advice are from online communities, social media and youtube videos. While most advice is well intended, that advice can sometimes be interpreted as an ultimatum: you either follow the advice, or your photos will never be impressive.
Let’s look at three common myths about photography that I often hear.
You need better gear to take better photos
A landscape photographer does not need to feel far away to feel that they need better camera gear to get better photos. It is easy to fall into this trap. Although I don’t believe this, you will often find me talking about camera gear.
To listen to all types of ideas on the latest camera system, there is a need to spend only one time on social media or various online communities – either it is better than the previous camera or lens model, or how it does not compare any other camera option. People will analyze the speed of autofocus, it has a dynamic range, how many megapixels it has, and so on.
It is easy to see how a photographer can quickly come to believe that gear is the key to better photos when so much talk is about photography gear.
The reality is, gear does not mean that you will make better photos. Photography has been around for a long, long time, and while our technology improves, photographers are making great images all the time. Portfolio-worthy images have been generated throughout this time, from film cameras to the first digital cameras to hit the market in today’s entrance level cameras.
Today’s cameras are powerhouses with any definition. I used to say that if your camera was purchased within the last ten years, it is not what is catching you back. I think I can change it in the last 15 years. There may be technical ideas to work around, but every opportunity you need to produce magnificent images to use the present camera gear.
There are more enough ways to improve your photography than buying the latest camera gear. Learn the camera you have. Get acquainted with its options, where things are in the menu, and how to configure the controls to make you more efficient in the field. Know what is the strength of the camera. Learn what it does not do well, so you can work around those boundaries. Work when using the camera that you have to develop your creative eye, which will have a big impact on your photography than the gear upgrade.
You should follow some composition rules
Rules of composition are a major topic in photography: third, leading lines, foregrounds, middlegrounds, and backgrounds, and similar rules. One reason is that these rules are often talked and taught. I just want them to be called guidelines instead of rules. Getting familiar with these rules or guidelines can help you create a more powerful picture, as they follow the visual theory that are prepared on the basis of artistic work centuries ago.
However, I often find a photographer who feels that they should always follow a certain rule, such as the rule of third. Each image taken by them is using grid lines on their visualization and a tree on one-third of the frame with a lining, without any deviation.
When starting with the composition, rules help in putting words into words that make one image stronger than another. But the rules of composition should be considered as a tool in a toolbox. Just because you have a hammer in your toolbox, it does not mean that you should use it on every project. Sometimes a screwdriver is a better option.
The creation principle of learning is important. Just remember, the goal is not only to follow the rules for the following rules, but to help them use their attitude of a scene. Apply creative devices in a way that makes images the strongest, rather than examining a rule for the purpose of saying that you followed the rules.
You need to travel for your photography
Travel to landscape photography is a wonderful time and experience. The journey brings enthusiasm by looking at new places, and becomes very easy to avoid possible worldly day to day in its local area. But thinking that you can only take great pictures while traveling because there is no ability in your area.
I often ask people to practice locally. Learning your camera, practicing the basic principles of photography, and learning to turn the rules of photography contribute to all strong images. All these things can be practiced locally, no matter where you are. Not taking every opportunity to use your camera is preventing your progress as a photographer – both improve their technical skills and develop their creative eye.
Beyond skill improvement, there are great opportunities to create amazing photos in your local area. As a midwestern photographer, I think if I can make a compelling picture in my local area, anyone can do it.
I may not have a huge mountain range or a grand landscape for the picture, but I have many landscape subjects that are out and to take the picture. From local waterfalls to scenes from Woodland, from the edges of the creek or lake, you can always find something to make photos. I get a lot of my small scenes and woodland photography exercises at the local level.
By exiting locally, you can see the scenes again and see them in different weather conditions. While a scene may not have too much capacity on a bright, sunshine day, find it on a foggy morning, and new opportunities presents themselves.
By revisiting, we get the approach to different angles or attitudes. We have too much time to study a scene, contact it with different approaches and see it in different ways on frequent visits. Even the subtle variations of light can change an old, familiar view, which you carry in countless times that stop and create a picture.
I have only identified the three repeated myths that I have seen, but there are many other myths through photography communities. Ever tell yourself or explain something You should do something like this orThere is a good chance that you have come in a landscape photography myth.
What popular myths have you heard in your photography circle?
