Unlock Your Landscape Photography Potential—Learn with Expert Guidance:
The lessons, handouts, and videos on this page are designed to help participants prepare for our workshops. However, they are open to everyone who is eager to improve their landscape photography skills. Whether you're a beginner or an experienced photographer, you'll find valuable resources to enhance your fieldwork techniques, improve your composition, and master post-processing.
Landscape Photography Lessons: Master the Art with Structured Learning
Our comprehensive landscape photography lessons, available in downloadable PDFs, are designed to guide you step-by-step through key concepts. Whether you're a complete beginner or looking to refine your skills, these lessons cover essential topics to help you create stunning landscape photos.
Composition
A detailed guide to mastering the art of composition in landscape photography. Learn how to frame your shots and create visually compelling images. (File Size: 168 MB)
Camera Settings for Landscape Photography
Explore the ideal camera settings for various landscape photography scenarios. From aperture to shutter speed, learn how to optimize your settings for perfect shots every time.
Exposure
Understand the fundamentals of exposure in landscape photography. This lesson teaches you how to balance shutter speed, aperture, and ISO for perfectly exposed images.
Manual Metering
Master manual metering to gain full control over your exposure. Learn how to use your camera's metering system to capture landscapes with precision and accuracy.
Histogram
Learn how to read and interpret histograms to ensure proper exposure and avoid overexposed or underexposed areas in your landscape photos.
Depth-of-Field / Hyperfocal Distance
This lesson covers depth-of-field techniques and how to calculate hyperfocal distance to achieve sharp focus throughout your landscape photos.
Landscape Photography Focus Settings
Explore various focus settings and techniques to ensure your landscape shots are crisp, clear, and properly focused.
Photography Handouts: Essential PDFs for Every Landscape Photographer
Our handouts are a valuable resource to enhance your landscape photography skills. Each PDF provides practical, easy-to-follow guidance, whether you're just starting out or refining your techniques. Below are the downloadable handouts that cover everything from fieldwork to night photography and camera settings.
CFDER—Landscape Photography Field Workflow
This comprehensive guide outlines the CFDER workflow, an efficient step-by-step process to help you capture stunning landscapes from start to finish while preventing common mistakes.
Andy's Camera Settings
Unlock the best camera settings for a variety of landscape photography scenarios. This handout includes Andy's personal recommendations for exposure, ISO, and other key settings to achieve professional results.
Tripod Tips & Techniques
Learn how to use a tripod effectively to stabilize your camera and ensure sharp, steady shots. This handout covers the essential tips and techniques for tripod use, from positioning to long exposure setups.
Steps to Photograph a Panorama
Master the art of panorama photography with this practical guide. Follow step-by-step instructions on how to capture sweeping landscape vistas. Print them for use in the field.
How to Test for Lens Sharpness: Practical Guide (No Math)
Testing for lens sharpness is essential for ensuring the quality of your landscape photos. This guide provides a straightforward, no-math approach to testing your lenses to ensure they perform at their best.
Night Photography Instruction
Delve into the world of night photography with this step-by-step guide. Learn essential techniques for shooting stunning landscapes after dark, including settings, composition, and tips for low-light conditions.
Night Photography Rule of 400: Shutter Speed Guidelines
This handout introduces the Rule of 400, a guideline for determining the shutter speed in night sky photography. Please keep in mind, the NPF Rule, found in PhotoPills, is often a better option for determining the optimal long exposure for sharp stars.
Landscape Photography Videos: Master Key Techniques with Expert Guidance
Our collection of concise, easy-to-follow videos is designed to help you enhance your landscape photography skills in no time. Whether you're looking to improve your fieldwork, or learn post processing techniques, these videos provide practical, hands-on instruction.
Learn CFDER—Landscape Photography Field Workflow (6 Minutes)
In this quick, 6-minute video, you'll learn the CFDER workflow, a step-by-step method for capturing stunning landscape photographs, ensuring that you never miss a shot. This video is ideal for photographers who want to streamline their approach in the field.
How to Photograph Panoramas with a Tripod (6 Minutes)
In just 6 minutes, this video guides you through the essential fieldwork techniques for capturing breathtaking fine art panoramas with a tripod. Learn how to align your shots perfectly to achieve professional-quality results with seamless stitching every time.
Auto Exposure Bracketing: Is It Still Necessary for HDR Photography?
Explore the role of Auto Exposure Bracketing (AEB) in capturing high dynamic range (HDR) images with modern cameras. In this video, we'll examine whether AEB is still necessary, or if today's cameras can handle HDR without it. Perfect for photographers looking to deepen their understanding of exposure control and HDR techniques.
Post Processing Videos for Landscape Photographers
Ready to unlock the full potential of your images?
Welcome to our exclusive collection of post-processing tutorials for landscape photographers! Dive into in-depth, hands-on videos that push the boundaries of image editing.
New tutorials added regularly, so check back often!
Learn the most powerful techniques in Adobe Photoshop and elevate your landscape photography to the next level.
AEB & HDR Part 2: When Lightroom/ACR Fail in HDR Processing
Discover when Auto Exposure Bracketing (AEB) and HDR processing fail in Lightroom and Adobe Camera Raw (ACR). Learn how to resolve these issues using Photomatix, a single raw file from a bracketed series, or a combination of both. Plus, get essential tips for exposing bracketed images in the field to simplify post-processing and achieve the best HDR results.
How to Blend Milky Way and Dusk Foreground in Photoshop
Learn how to seamlessly blend a Milky Way image with a stunning foreground image taken at dusk in this step-by-step Photoshop tutorial. Ideal for photographers seeking to master advanced editing for breathtaking nightscape photos.
Mastering Milky Way Panoramas: Post Processing Techniques in Photoshop
Take your Milky Way photography to the next level by seamlessly blending a foreground panorama with a Milky Way panorama in this step-by-step Adobe Photoshop tutorial. Learn advanced techniques for stitching, aligning, and combining multiple images to create breathtaking panoramic nightscapes.