Landscape Photography: From Snapshots to Great Shots

2. Seeing as Your Camera Sees

Thinking about Light and Shadow

Landscape photography has a long tradition in photography. In fact, it’s how photography got started! Landscapes don’t move, so they were perfect subjects for the first photographers, whose cameras required exposures that were hours long.

With modern gear, you won’t have that challenge, even if you photograph at night. But one of the challenges of great cameras and lenses is that it’s easy to consider them more important than they really are. People believe that cameras do a good job of capturing reality, so if you want a better photograph of that reality, all you need to do is get ...