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How To Take Amazing Landscape Photos Using Phone's Camera

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Whether you use an iPhone or Android phone, we've got the top tips for taking better landscape photos. The latest crop of  phones  like the  iPhone 11 ,  11 Pro ,  Samsung Galaxy S10 Plus ,  OnePlus 7 Pro  or  Google Pixel 4  have cameras on board that can snag the sort of beautiful photographs you'd normally expect to see coming from pricey DSLRs. I've already  put the iPhone 11 Pro to the test on a road trip around Scotland  and was amazed by the results I could get. In this guide, I'm going to take you through how to take landscape photos with your phone, whether you're heading into the rural countryside or deep into the heart of the mountains. While some of the tips apply to recent handsets with multiple lens options, many are relevant whether your phone is three months or three years old,  Apple  or Android. Some shots require some additional hardware; getting a slow shutter shot of a waterfall, for example, ...

How Much Photo Editing Is Too Much In Landscape Photography?

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When it comes to photography and landscape photography in particular, how much editing is too much? Is there such a thing as processing an image too much? This is the topic in photographer Attilio Ruffo's latest video. For landscape photographers, it's not unusual to receive a question that goes something like this, "how much did you edit this image?" Sometimes it's a simple curiosity, other times it's the beginning of an interaction that ultimately ends with someone thinking that your image is unrealistic and perhaps bad because of it. For Ruffo, this annoys him because he doesn't think that it really matters and is missing the point of landscape photography. How much you edit an image is a very personal topic. It's an artistic decision and therefore, it's a subjective one informed by your own ideas and experiences. "The only thing that matters to me is that the result is pleasing my eyes," Ruffo says in the video below, expressing ...

The Approach To Better Landscape Photos

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Three perspectives on seeing what is familiar—versus seeing what is new—in landscape photography Pioneer Basin, John Muir Wilderness, Sierra Nevada Mountains, California. Photo by Marc Muench. You are standing atop a ridge looking down as the world spreads out below you. Late afternoon sunlight dapples a forest of pine trees that stretches for miles along either side of a winding river. In the distance, rugged mountains rise from the earth, their jagged peaks scraping the clouds above. Where do you point your camera? Approaching a landscape can be among the most daunting parts of landscape photography. It is also the most important. Everything begins with seeing. But how we see is situational and is influenced by our experiences and familiarity with a location and subject. Photographers Marc Muench, Sivani Babu and Andy Williams discuss previsualization, discovery and how they each approach the landscape. Marc Muench For the first half of my life, almost every landscape wa...