The Landscape Tutorial and Me

This has been an interesting and worthwhile tutorial for me. The purpose of the tutorial was to better equip the beginning landscape photographer with the basic skills necessary to improve their technique in the field. As such, the tutorial began with the basics of learning how to critically evaluate your own photographs, through the basic [...]

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Project Day 7

This is the final project for the Better Landscapes in Just 7 Days tutorial in Practical Photography I am attempting to complete. This project calls for you to make a purchase, if you haven’t already done so, of an OS map (or any other topographical map) of your local area. You are to “use its [...]

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Day 7: Learn All About Locations

Day 7of the Better Landscapes in Just 7 Days tutorial of Practical Photography is concerned with finding the best locations using Ordinance Survey maps. This tutorial is more about map reading and applying topographical features to your photographic adventures than the mechanics of photography. The tutorial points out 10 features to look for on an [...]

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Project Day 6

The project for Day 6 of the Better Landscapes in Just 7 Days tutorial in Practical Photography is to “Take a series of pictures of either wind-blown foliage or flowing water at a range of different shutter speeds. Then study the effect each shutter speed has had on the area that’s moving during the exposure.” [...]

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Day 6: Take More Control of Your Camera

Day 6 of the Better Landscapes in Just 7 Days tutorial in Practical Photography focuses on mastering shutter speed and aperture. “Once you’ve got to know the basic settings on your camera it’s time to start using them more creatively. Essentially, you need to understand how different settings affect the final look of your picture [...]

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Project Day 5

The project for Day 5 is to “practise using ND grad filters at sunrise or sunset. Shoot the scene with and without them and study how this affects your results.” The results of my shoots are below: without ND grad with ND grad 3 I think of all the tutorials so far, this is the [...]

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Day 5: Add Filters For Effect

Day 5 of the Better Landscapes in Just 7 Days tutorial in the current issue of Practical Photography focuses on the use of the polariser and ND grad filters in landscape photography. “Every photographer needs a little help to capture the landscape on the sensor or film. This is because you won’t be able to [...]

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Project Day 4

The project for Day 4 is to “Check the weather forecast and head out to a location close to home to shoot sunrise and sunset.” Here are my photos: Taken clockwise, the time for the photos are 1) 19:25 2) 19:27 (sunset) 3) 19:29 and 4) 19:31. So, what can we learn from this? Well, [...]

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Day 4: Understand Natural Light

I’m back to the tutorials today. I’ve been waiting rather impatiently for the weather to start to cooperate for the final days of the tutorial. It hasn’t, and I’ve lost patience, so I will see what can be done regardless of the weather. Day 4 of the Better Landscapes in Just 7 Days tutorial in [...]

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Project Day 3

The project for Day 3 of the Better Landscapes in Just 7 Days tutorial is to “Take a landscape photo using as many composition rules as possible to make your framing visually appealing as it can be.” Here are the results of today’s shoot taken at Inch Castle in Co. Donegal: I am quite pleased [...]

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