I came up with the idea of writing this post by remembering a conversation I had with a friend five years ago, who is a professional landscape photographer specialized in panoramas as well. With twenty years of professional photography behind him, he was at a turning point of his career, when he slowly realized that
“Over the years, I have developed a method to avoid thinking in halves, thirds, quarters, or the golden mean as I compose the landscape: I always begin by spontaneously balancing the features I have chosen by intuition.” Galen Rowell, Mountain Light. For any photographer looking to improve his skills and changing his approach to landscape
Making a landscape photograph is about being able to answer the following questions and melt them into one creative intention at a time. What do I want to shoot ? How would I do ? When should I press the shutter ? We need to understand the photographic process at stake. Most of it is
Observation is an essential quality for a landscape photographer. “The devil is in the details”, they say. It is crucial to have it in mind when you are on location for two reasons. First, because you don’t want to miss a potential shot. Second, because you are very likely to go back home without any
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