📖 GOOD READS

The Best Tool For Improving Your Compositions

How many times have you returned from what you felt was a productive landscape photography trip only to find that some of the compositions of your favorite images aren’t exactly what you expected. This happens to me rather frequently, but fortunately for us we have access to one of the best tools for improving composition in our landscape photos, the Crop Tool!

For years I only used the crop tool as a means of cleaning up the edges of my images by removing overlooked distractions. But, when the crop tool is used most effectively, it’s as if you’ve accessed a time machine that enables you to go back and recompose your composition to something that’s more pleasing.

In order to access the crop overlays within Lightroom, open the crop tool and simply press the shortcut key O to cycle through the various crop overlays. There’s a total of 7 available, but I typically only use 5 of them. >> Read More​

📖 GOOD READS

Simple Secret For Creating Dramatic Landscape Photos

Typically, when I begin an edit on one of my landscape photos the very first thing I do is try and determine exactly where I think the viewers eye will travel throughout my image. And, at the same time I look for any possible distractions that could compete for the viewers attention.

I always want the viewer to be drawn away from the edges and corners of my photo and into the center portion of the image. I’ve come to the conclusion that the longer a viewers eye lingers around the edges or corners of an image the higher the likelihood they’ll abandon it to look at something else. And, my end goal is always the same when editing photos and that’s to maximize the amount of time the viewer spends looking at my image, and this is where a vignette comes in.

Now I know a vignette is not the most exciting editing tool to discuss, but when used effectively it can be a powerful option for creating a focused and dramatic landscape photo. A vignette has a unique ability to create a concentrated effect that directs the viewers attention to certain areas of your scene while at the same time directing the viewers eye away from other areas. But, like most things in photography there isn’t a one size fits all approach and certainly not when it comes to creating a vignette either. >> Read More​

🤓 PHOTO NERDS

• 📸 The very first photo took 8 hours to expose!
• 🎥 The first camera with an autofocus system was the Konica C35 AF which was developed in 1977.
• 📷The 1st digital camera weighed 4 times more than a modern DSLR coming in at a whopping 8 pounds!

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