This short workshop is designed to teach you everything that I feel you need to know to take great landscape photos. I welcome your feedback and questions!

1. Landscape Workshop

2. Equipment
• Digital SLR
• Interchangeable lenses
– Wide angles
– Plan ahead, buy the best (L) you can afford
• Memory cards/hard drives (x2)
• Tripod
– Sturdy, but light
– Remote shutter release or camera 2s timer
• Filters
– 3x neutral density and grad ND, circular polarizer
• Do your lenses all have same front element diameter (72 or 77mm)?
• Camera backpack
– Comfortable, weatherproof, discrete
• Photo editing software
– Lightroom or Photoshop w/ Nik Veveza 2 plug-in (must have!)

3. Know how to use your camera
• What mode should I use?
– Aperture (Av) !
• Take control of the f-stop (and film speed/ISO)
• The camera does the rest!
• What ISO should I use?
– As low as you can!
• Grainy images above ISO 400
• When do I need a tripod?
– Not always!
• Shutter speeds slower 1/100s
• When do I need filters?
– Almost always!
• When do my images need photo editing?
– Always!

4. More about Aperture (Av) mode…

5. More about Aperture (Av) mode…

6. Filters – Circular Polarizer

7. Filters – Circular Polarizer

8. Filters – Neutral Density

9. Filters – Graduated Neutral Density
• Some shots need 2
– Hand hold a Cokin!

10. Photo editing
• $900 $260 $140

11. Photo editing
• $900 $260 $140
• LUCKY STUDENTS!!
• $190 $90 $100

12. My buddy’s favorite picture…

13. One of my favorite pictures…

14. One of my favorite pictures…

15. Composition
• Level horizon
• Rule of thirds
• Leading lines
• Symmetry/patterns
• Viewpoint
• Depth
• Framing
• Cropping
• Experimenting

16. Level horizon
• You lose image size if must correct in photoshop!

17. Rule of thirds

18. Rule of thirds

19. Rule of thirds

20. Rule of thirds

21. Rule of thirds

22. Leading lines

23. Leading lines

24. Leading lines

25. Leading lines

26. Leading lines

27. Depth

28. Depth

29. Depth

30. Depth

31. Depth

32. Symmetry/patterns

33. Symmetry/patterns

34. Viewpoint

35. Viewpoint

36. Cropping

37. Cropping

38. Cropping

39. Framing

40. Framing

41. Framing
and
Cropping

42. Experimenting

43. Background

44. Background

45. The MAGIG Hour!
• How long does it last per day?

46. 30 minutes before sunrise…

47. 30 minutes after sunrise…

48. 30 minutes before sunset…

49. 30 minutes after sunset…

50. The MAGIG Hour!
• How long does it last per day?
• What percentage of your shooting?

51. The MAGIG Hour!
• How long does it last per day?
• What percentage of your shooting?
– AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE!

52. The MAGIG Hour!
• How long does it last per day?
• What percentage of your shooting?
– AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE!
• What about the rest of the day?

53. The MAGIG Hour!
• How long does it last per day?
• What percentage of your shooting?
– AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE!
• What about the rest of the day?
– Eat, sleep, hike, drink, fish, drive, or….

54. Research/Plan the next shoot…
• Internet: websites, blogs, message boards
– www.pbase.com/bjrhodes01
– www.naturephotographers.net
– www.fredmiranda.com
• Books
– Photographing the Southwest
• Maps/GPS, Google Earth
• Safety/weather/sun reports
• Local photographer galleries
• Gift shops

55. …and hope for a touch of good fortune!

56. The Golden Rule