Powerful Landscape Photography Ebook

Powerful Landscape Photography

• Why you don't need a whiz bang 'does-everything-but-make-you-coffee' SLR digital camera to get superb landscape photos.
• The secret to bringing out beautiful natural colours. Rich greens of grass, vibrant blues of the sky, lively oranges of a sunset, warm browns of rock and earth and stunning purples and pinks of summer sunset skies.
• How to change the disappointing 'flat line' syndrome into a landscape that has depth, real distance and vastness.
• The well kept professional secret of why most landscapes look uninspiring, flat and what you can do to ensure this never, ever happens to you.
• Learn what makes beautiful silhouettes and how easy it is to create the ultimate silhouetted landscape photo
• How to add depth and scale working with a clever foreground method
• How you can improve the composition of your landscape photo by doing this one very, very easy technique. This has helped hundreds of people with their landscapes. I was so surprised myself to discover this years ago.
• Find out what that one single element is to creating awesome and inspiring landscape photos. You will not believe how simple this is! (I've just given you a clue.)
• Discover the 3 most well kept professional secrets to successful landscape photography; you have to go to Photography College for this one, because it's not usually in books.
• Learn how certain lighting can completely ruin your landscape.
• Discover how clouds can dramatically improve your landscape photograph and how you can easily work with this technique to create more of an "open space" look and feel.
• Discover the secret of which lenses are good to use, and how they work to enhance depth, space, power and distance. (You'll be thankful for this one! This is really important.)
• Find out what the ideal light is for landscape photography is so that you get the best shots you can, every time.
• And what about hard light? Haven't we been told to avoid it like the plague? Yes we have, but I'll show you how you can work with bright, midday, summer sunlight and still get magnificent landscape photos. Yes, there is a way! Hard light is not the enemy in this technique. (Just wait till you discover this secret! It'll change the way you take summer landscape photos for good.)
• Why you don't actually need bright sunlight to create the beautiful richness of colour in your landscapes. (There are actually 3 types of light, which I'll show you.)
• You'll also find out what THE best filters are for landscape photography. Filters can be very important for your landscape shots. I recommend one filter in particular that can seriously transform your landscape pictures into 'perfect' shots.
• How to successfully work with focal length & depth of field that is specific to landscapes.
• Do you want sunsets in your landscape photos without the sun underexposing everything, including loosing colour? Learn this one and you'll be able to capture the bold purples, intense reds, lively oranges in your sunset, and keep everything else looking just right.
• Learn what problems you can encounter with taking landscape photos, such as 3 tiered landscapes. How you can avoid this common problem.
• Learn the trick to creating beautiful openness using the "Horizon Line Placement" technique.
• How to vertically position your landscapes, so they work well visually and technically. And why this works so well for landscape subjects.
• How to include 'lonely trees' in your landscapes to add a sense of the dramatic and sparseness. And, how to do this at dusk.
• How to shoot front-on into the direction of the sun without annoying flare.
• Why you must know what 'real light' and 'how the camera interprets light' is.
• Want to include architecture in your landscapes? Such as modern cityscapes? (Then you simply must read this section in the ebook. In this section you'll find out what works and what definitely does not work. Just because its buildings or a human-made structure doesn't automatically mean it will make a good photo.)
• How to take landscapes with bodies of water, such as lakes, ponds, rivers etc, so the water looks calming to the eye. (With this technique you'll be able to capture a clear, reflective look in your water, as if it is a mirror. There is a wrong and a right way to do this. Don't get caught!)
• What about your lake or pond at dusk, with all the beautiful colours reflected in the water? Easy! Follow this technique and you can't go wrong.
• Learn the right way to capturing rainbows in your landscape photos. (This technique will make your rainbows look vibrant, clear, intensely beautiful, enabling you to see every colour band clearly.)
• Why beautiful, classy, black and white landscapes are so easy to capture. And how you can enhance the depth and magnificence using these simple techniques.
• What inexpensive tools you can use that will give you amazing effects. You won't be able to tell that these tools are just simple everyday household items. How great is that! (This 'tool' cost me ten bucks at a second hand market.)
• What digital zoom is and why you should not use it for landscape photography.
• Optical Zoom for landscape? When to use it and when not to. There are specific situations when you do use it and when you don't.
• How to take sensational snow covered landscapes. How to avoid one common problem experienced by many winter landscape enthusiasts.