5 Rookie Mistakes Made by Landscape Photographers

JamesMiller

If you are interested in landscape photography I’m sure you have read lots of “how to improve…” type articles, which are all useful in their own way. But often to get things right you need to analyse what you are doing wrong. With this in mind here are 5 common mistakes that can spoil a landscape.

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Photobug

The number of people that use good equipment and shoot in dull light is pretty common. But the one I laugh at are those who shoot with a 1600m lens, manual focus, and get all excited about their fussy no contrast pictures. Their pictures just are not sharp in all the details.

ThomasHorton

/rant on

Please, for all that is holy, can we stop with the drastically tilted horizon shots??? It stopped being novel exactly the second time it was done.

Dutch/German angle shots can be useful for medium/close shots, but not for landscapes.

One Tog I know does this for all his landscape shots. Making a scene look weird is not always making it look better.

/rant off

Level horizons for landscapes: Learn it, Love it; Live it.

WestEndBoy

Yeah, the first thing you should care about is making your horizon level. If you are not even doing that........

Ironheart

Or fix it in post