Experienced portrait photographer needs landscape/exterior architecture help

[jsml]

I'm used to photographing people...indoors or out...but my landscape and architecture work needs major help. No point in posting any photos--basically, they just look like snap and shoot photos or what you would see with your eye...no drama, etc.

Any technique and gear tips, please?

 

[tirediron]

Actually, there's a LOT of point in posting photos; without seeing where you're having difficulty we really can't provide a lot of assistance. What equipment do you have now, and other than looking like 'snap and shoot' images, what are the problems? Are they technical? Compositional?

 

[gsgary]

I'm in the same boat good in studio and sports and music photography but landscape i'm crap, but i'll post one from a few weeks ago of a famous climbing area near where i live, we need to see where your at to help

 

[Vtec44]

I'm in the same boat good in studio and sports and music photography but landscape i'm crap, but i'll post one from a few weeks ago of a famous climbing area near where i live, we need to see where your at to help

Great pic, I hope you don't mind I edited a little....

 

[johnh2005]

From what I hear a lot of landscape photos would be a lot better if there was some foreground interest then having the rest of the scene draws the eyes back across the rest of the scene. It also helps to add a feeling of depth/height to the photo.

 

[gsgary]

I'm in the same boat good in studio and sports and music photography but landscape i'm crap, but i'll post one from a few weeks ago of a famous climbing area near where i live, we need to see where your at to help

Great pic, I hope you don't mind I edited a little....

No that's great, i didn't bother with it much because i'm not much into landscapes i should be because i have scenes like this one all over where i live within 15 minutes, if anyone is interested in the area in the photo it's famous
for climbing, the longest gritstone edge in the uk
Stanage Edge, Hathersage, Derbyshire - longest gritstone edge in England

 

[waikiki]

This is a topic for long time, as I explained in the previous post you have to read books, attend photography classes and so on to master this.

Few , simple rules in landscape photography:

Use tripod.
Learn about composition, in art, in painting or photography.
Take photos only at sunrise and sunset.
Walk, walk, walk. Do not only drive, you have to get out from the car walk for hours find great locations and maybe later come page to the same locations, build the vision of your photo in your head.
Come back to the same locations.
In landscape photography you can organize the objects , very similar like moving the human model. This might sound insane but this is possible.
Buy changing the point of view, moving couple of feet around , moving your camera up and down you can move threes, houses, lakes or even mountains in relation to each other. When you master to move the objects around, and understand the composition , this is when you ready to take first steps in landscape photography.

Good luck

 

[enzodm]

Also for me landscape is a problem. When I cross a nice place, most of times I end up thinking that my memory will be better than my pictures of it .
Or I end up with common postcards...

 

[EchoingWhisper]

I'm in the same boat good in studio and sports and music photography but landscape i'm crap, but i'll post one from a few weeks ago of a famous climbing area near where i live, we need to see where your at to help

Great pic, I hope you don't mind I edited a little....

The pict is gone, but it is still in Google.

 

[Ron Evers]

From what I hear a lot of landscape photos would be a lot better if there was some foreground interest then having the rest of the scene draws the eyes back across the rest of the scene. It also helps to add a feeling of depth/height to the photo.

Like this maybe.