5 Tips For Taking Better Nature Photos
Including people in a landscape shot makes the image more interesting. Steve Kohls said it helps viewers identify with the subject and imagine themselves in the scene. Steve Kohls / Brainerd Dispatch Editor’s note: This is part four of a series of articles designed to improve your outdoor photography skills. BRAINERD, Minn. — Steve Kohls has worked as a photographer at the Brainerd Dispatch for 44 years. That kind of tenure is rare in the newspaper business, but Kohls said the area provides so much variety that he’s never been bored. “I do something different every day,” Kohls said. “I shoot underwater video at the mine pits during summer, shoot swans in the open water above the Gull Dam in the winter and everything in between. I love the seasons, the variety of landscapes and, of course, all the water.” Include people in outdoor photos “I capture people in landscape images whenever I can,” Kohls said. “People make almost any image more interesting and allow viewer...