How to improve my landscapes?

timputtick · Oct 2, 2011

here are a few of my landscapes, does anyone have any good tips to taking landscape photos? thanks

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(3)

Compaq · Oct 2, 2011

Composition in #1 is great, imo. You got the foreground interest (woody thing, not sure what it's called), middle ground (water) and background (trees and sky). You have also, which really makes this shot I think, framing along the edges. Those branches really adds to it. The image has leading lines that worked very well on me, the image has a feeling of depth. The place seems idyllic. It has a warmth to it that's, to me at least, is pleasing. I like this.

#2 is a nice shot, but it's not anything extra-ordinary for me. Too much sky, I think. It's a little flat, could do with some more contrast. Not really sure how I'd do it, I can't visualise the surroundings there.

#3 doesn't really do much for me. I'm not feeling the mood, so to speak. That pole is in the way, I think. It's placed right at the edge of the frame.

#1 is a winner, imo.

Ron Evers · Oct 2, 2011

I really like #1 but it is a little under exposed.

I think #2 could have been improved by the use of a CPL to accent the clouds & reduce the haze.

#3 seems not to have anything in focus.

tyler_h · Oct 2, 2011

Have these been played with heavily in post? They seem very muddy, and the first two have some definite halos...

KmH · Oct 2, 2011

Agree with being muddy. They look like they have been tone-mapped.

#3 looks to have purple fringing.

In #2 you were not close enough. The image has to much sky, and would have made more sense shot as a horizontal frame