While we’re not limited by our geography, it undoubtedly influences our development as photographers. It shapes how we see the natural world and what we highlight in our images.
I hope this workflow outline offers some considerations as you progress through your own images. Take time to consider why you might dodge the flowing water or apply an oval vignette around the scene.
The topic of what makes a great landscape photo is one I’ve considered and reviewed for many years (and one I’m still exploring). Recently, I’ve found that there’s a broad concept that encapsulates many of the aspects of great landscape photos—visual transitions.
My life, as far as I recall, began outside. In seaside rockpools, under the shade of trees and camping in the Australian bush. It’s in these interactions with natural spaces that we discover not only ourselves, but the interwoven threads of existence around us.
When we ask questions beyond the gear and settings, not only do we learn more about how the image was created, but we find that the answers are infinitely more interesting too.
Home to iconic locations like Cathedral Rocks and Bombo Quarry, Kiama NSW hosts a number of stunning seascape locations just waiting to be photographed.
Australia is bursting with natural beauty and through my fine art landscape prints I can share a slice of these stunning moments with you. These photos exist so that you too might experience the same feelings of awe, terror and solace as I did in capturing them.
Colour Theory—understood, appreciated and applied—can take a strongly composed landscape image and elevate it to a lasting work of art. This guide shows you how to put the theory into practice.
From twisted alpine gums to mighty redwoods to lush temperate rainforests—Victoria has it all. The diversity and beauty in Victoria’s forests is simply stunning.
Want to enhance the viewing experience of your landscape photos? This tutorial explores colour theory, colour harmonies, and shares a number of tips and techniques to refine your images in post-processing.
It’s been a tough few weeks for all of us. But this slowdown also presents opportunities to reflect and review. I encourage you to use this time constructively and to fuel your creative pursuits.
The aim of landscape photography isn’t to create flawless scenes. Instead, Landscape photography is a journey, aiming to capture fleeting moments of beauty, awe and emotion in an imperfect world.
The effect has become a cliche of bad landscape photography—gone the way of intense saturation or unnatural HDR. Yet used in moderation, locally, and with consideration, it can further enhance the viewing experience.
The undergrowth was lush, the canopy rose high and new photography opportunities awaited me at every twist and turn. The drive quickly become a personal favourite and one that I’ll be returning to again soon.
I found the telephoto lens liberating. It freed me up to hone in on a key element or two. Soon I was capturing compositions that my eyes had never seen—at a location I’ve visited many times before.
Drones open up a whole new dimension for landscape photographers. If the best camera is the one you have on you. Why not bring two along to your next landscape shoot?
While presets may be a welcome time-saver for wedding, portrait and travel photographers, editing a landscape photo is different.
Each landscape image we create is unique. Each is deserving of its own post-processing.
This summer I returned home to the South Coast of NSW. Grand visions of a collection of bold, colourful seascapes filled my head. Then the fires hit.
How landscape photographers can act to conserve the land they love to capture. Because it’s worth saving and restoring. It’s been done before.
I recently ventured out the Redwood Forest of East Warburton to photograph the grand tree grove from above with my Mavic Pro 2 drone. This tutorial explores how I edited the image in Adobe Lightroom.
A telephoto lens presents not just a challenge, but an opportunity for capturing landscapes. They enable us to view and compose scenes from an entirely new frame of mind.
When we have an idealised concept of the “perfect image”, our shortcomings in failing to produce it can be paralysing. What’s needed is continual improvement. Showing up to practice, and giving yourself the freedom to fail.
Stan’s cheekiness—or as he later puts it, his inquisitiveness—becomes a recurring theme throughout our talks. Yet given his formal education and distinguished career, cheekiness seems a curious trait.
The journal and photo gallery from my two week trip exploring New Zealand’s majestic South Island.
I’ve compiled my favourite images over the past few months. Admittedly, I haven’t been out to shoot as much as I’d like recently, but that’s going to change in August.
When we approach our time in the field with a richer appreciation for the subtle, ever-changing interplay between light and landscape, we foster greater opportunities for creative expression.
After exploring Horse Head Rock on NSW's Sapphire Coast, my father and I returned to Kiama's Cathedral Rocks—an old favourite seascape location of ours. Scoping out the rocks and lighting in the evening, we were determined to visit again at sunrise on the higher tide.
While wide-angle lenses may be the staple of any landscape photographer’s kit, a telephoto lens present not just a challenge, but an opportunity too.
In mid-2017 my father and I drove into the heart of Australia to capture some astrophotography of Uluru. I’ve already shared those images, yet this image at the base of Uluru has been left untouched on my hard drive. Why?
From Tokyo, Kyoto and Osaka, here’s my selection of street photography from our travels across Japan.
Over the weekend I ventured down to the Otways and filmed a vlog to provide a behind the scenes look at what goes into one of these photos.
Mark—like the mansion he calls home each Sunday—simply has that alluring photogenic quality.
And who am I to deny them of that?
Laurel Hill’s Sugar Pine Plantation is a gem of a location to both photograph and explore. For those who are yet to visit, I hope my photos and descriptions here do the enchanted forest justice.
What's the difference between a passing snapshot and a lasting work of art? Well, it's a lot of things. But above all else, is composition.
In landscape photography, the means do not merely justify the end, the means are a worthwhile end in and of themselves.
I’ve been a photographer longer than I’ve been a writer. In fact, the pursuit of landscape photography led me to develop and hone my writing.
What’s the secret to taking better landscape photos? It's quite simple, really. All that’s needed is perseverance and grit.
In August of 2017, I ventured throughout Vietnam, taking just my camera and a sole 50mm prime lens to capture the experience. Here's the result.
The short film documenting our photographic adventures across Iceland over two weeks in the summer of 2017.
Iceland is one of the places I've longed to travel to myself, dreaming I'd make the trip someday. Well, we decided there’s no better time than the present and that someday came sooner than expected.
The sophomore guest on Ask A Photographer is none other than Mr Green Senior himself, Craig Green. In this interview, I turn the spotlight over to him, picking his brain for his own approach to photography.
I've now officially resigned from my job to hit the road for the rest of the year. It's a whirlwind world tour, but bring it on!
The first in a new series of columns where I ask fellow photographers their thoughts, insights and advice on the craft. First up is my mate Andy from Andrew McIntosh Photography.
Post-processing has become part of the trade for photographers. Yet it’s still a dirty word for some, associated with cheating and deception.
As primarily a landscape photographer entering the vast new world of drones, I wanted to offer my unbiased opinions and thoughts on the DJI Mavic Pro for landscape photographers.
I often get asked questions about my photography - the gear I use, the locations I shoot - and so I've put together a mini guide of sorts.
Since my piece on Instagram for Photographers, I've taken the time to consider, why do I actually photograph? It's something that's been largekly ignored and overlooked.
Instagram has become one of the most powerful tools for modern photographers. Yet, as much as we may prefer to remain ignorant, the platform isn't all sunsets and rainbows for photographers.
To wake before dawn to see the sunrise over the Pacific is an experience few of us will take for granted again. Here’s a collection of what we saw.