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7 Top Expert Tips For Professional Landscape Photography

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Janice Kho is a Perth-based photographer and blogger behind the TravellingLens.co. Here she encapsulates her top tips for shooting professional style landscape photography. She shot everything on a Fuji X-T10 and Fujifilm X-T20. Landscape photography has become one of my favourite genres of photography. It’s hard to go wrong with the combination of experiencing nature and its beauty with the creativity of photography. Below I share my top landscape photography tips I have learned over the years which have improved my photography. Come prepared for the weather and physical environment Being prepared for the weather is one of the most important things that ensure I enjoy shooting in the outdoors. For example, if you’re heading to the coast in the afternoon for sunset or before the sun rises, it will be likely to be windy or cold, so make sure you have enough layers to keep you warm. This might seem like a basic tip, but dressing for the weather means you are not focuse

5 Signs You’re Over-Editing Landscape Photos

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One of the more difficult aspects of post-processing is identifying when you’re starting to over edit a photo. It’s common knowledge what many of the characteristics of an over-edited image are, but determining when you’ve gone too far, that’s the challenging part. In this 14-minute video, I break down five tips that have helped me to understand and identify when I’m beginning to over process an image. Sign #1. Unrealistic Shadows and Highlights A common issue with landscape photography is when you’re shooting into the sun and either you overexpose the sun, sky, or both. A quick tip before you make any adjustments is to change the profile from Adobe Standard to Adobe Neutral. Adobe Neutral is a flatter profile that’ll give you more latitude in recovering clipped highlights or shadows. In order to resolve the overexposed area, if you reduce the highlights to a point that you begin to see an unnatural ring around the sun, then you’ve gone too far. On the o